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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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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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Half as sober as a judge.
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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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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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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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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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