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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
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
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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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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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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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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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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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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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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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