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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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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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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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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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