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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

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
Duty
Health
Inculcated
Upon
Enlarges
Self
Sickness
Men
Selfishness
Dimensions
Supreme

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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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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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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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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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