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

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
Laughing
Makes
Anything
Funeral
Awful
Laugh

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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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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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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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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 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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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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