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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
Beauty
Reality
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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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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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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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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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