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The vices of some men are magnificent.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Men
Magnificent
Vices

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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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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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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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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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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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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 drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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