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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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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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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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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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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 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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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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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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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It is good to love the unknown.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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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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