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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
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Theory
Practice
Enjoy
Life

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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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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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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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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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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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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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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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