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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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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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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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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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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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