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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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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
Beauty
Reality
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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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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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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