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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.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
Charity
Greatest
Pleasure
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Stealth
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Philanthropy
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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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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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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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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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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