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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
Introducing
Attitude
Hate
Men
Hating
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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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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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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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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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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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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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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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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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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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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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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