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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Curiosity
Feeling
Feelings
Ever
Without
Excite
Always
Puts
Disappointment
Newspapers

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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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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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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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