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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
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Asparagus
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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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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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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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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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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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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