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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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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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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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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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It is good to love the unknown.
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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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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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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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