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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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London
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Half as sober as a judge.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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