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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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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.
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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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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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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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