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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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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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Poet
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London
England
Good
Choosing
Men
Finds
Measure
Chosen
Likes
Whether
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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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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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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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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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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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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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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