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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

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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
Afterwards
Book
Mind

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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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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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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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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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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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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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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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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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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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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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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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