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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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London
England
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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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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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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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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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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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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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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