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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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London
England
Law
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Children
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Lawyers
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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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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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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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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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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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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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