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Not if I know myself at all.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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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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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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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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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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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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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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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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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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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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