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It is good to love the unknown.

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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
Good
Love
Unknown

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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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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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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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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 the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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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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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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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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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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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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