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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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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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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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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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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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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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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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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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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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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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