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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
Introduce
Introducing
Attitude
Hate
Men

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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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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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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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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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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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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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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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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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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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Half as sober as a judge.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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