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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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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Hating
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Attitude
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Men

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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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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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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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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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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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