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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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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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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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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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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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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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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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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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