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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

Charles Lamb

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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
Book
Mind
Men
Love
Think
Minds
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Lose
Loses
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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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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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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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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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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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The world meets nobody half way.
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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