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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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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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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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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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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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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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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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