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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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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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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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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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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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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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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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