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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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Poet
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London
England
Tale
Tales
Absolutes
Absolute
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Less
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Latitude

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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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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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Half as sober as a judge.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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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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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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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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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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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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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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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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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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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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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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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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