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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
Writer
London
England
Theory
Practice
Enjoy
Life

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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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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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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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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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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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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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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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