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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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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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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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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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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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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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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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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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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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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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