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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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London
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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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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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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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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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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