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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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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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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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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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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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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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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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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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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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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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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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