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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
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London
England
Inspires
Culinary
Gentle
Cooking
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Asparagus

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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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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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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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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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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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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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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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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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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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