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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

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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
Awful
Laugh
Laughing
Makes
Anything
Funeral

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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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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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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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