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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Men
Hating
Introduce
Introducing
Attitude
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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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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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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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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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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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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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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