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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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Introducing
Attitude
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Men

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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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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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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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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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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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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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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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