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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
Literary Critic
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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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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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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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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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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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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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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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