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Not if I know myself at all.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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London
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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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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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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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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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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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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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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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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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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