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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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Poet
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London
England
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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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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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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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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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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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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