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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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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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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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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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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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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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