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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
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London
England
Gentle
Cooking
Inspire
Thoughts
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Asparagus
Inspires
Culinary

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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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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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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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