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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
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London
England
Thinking
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Loses
Books
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Minds

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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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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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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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The true poet dreams being awake.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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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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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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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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It is good to love the unknown.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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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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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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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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