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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
Law
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Children
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Lawyers
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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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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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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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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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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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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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