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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.

Charles Lamb

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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
Hate
Men
Hating
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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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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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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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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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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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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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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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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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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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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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