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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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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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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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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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'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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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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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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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