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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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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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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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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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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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