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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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London
England
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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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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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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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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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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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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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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