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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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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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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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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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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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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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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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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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