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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Half as sober as a judge.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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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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