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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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Poet
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London
England
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Lawyer
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Law
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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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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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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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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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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