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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Absolutes
Absolute
Content
Allowed
Less
Teller
Truth
Latitude
Tale
Tales

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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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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 book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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