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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Deeds
Charity
Greatest
Pleasure
Action
Stealth
Found
Philanthropy
Character
Accident
Good
Accidents

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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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