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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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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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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 good to love the unknown.
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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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