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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
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Poet
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London
England
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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Not if I know myself at all.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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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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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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