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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
Tales
Absolutes
Absolute
Content
Allowed
Less
Teller
Truth
Latitude
Tale

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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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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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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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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 Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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