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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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London
England
Life
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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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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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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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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