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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
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Poet
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London
England
Theory
Practice
Enjoy
Life

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The world meets nobody half way.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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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 Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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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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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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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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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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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