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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

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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
Asparagus
Inspires
Culinary
Gentle
Cooking
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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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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
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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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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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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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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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