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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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
Live
Beauty
Reality

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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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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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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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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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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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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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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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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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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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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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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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