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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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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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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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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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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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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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