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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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Mother's love grows by giving.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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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 the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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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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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
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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 child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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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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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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