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

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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
Think
Minds
Thinking
Lose
Loses
Books
Book
Mind
Men
Love

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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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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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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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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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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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