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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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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!
Charles Lamb
To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
Charles Lamb
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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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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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
Charles Lamb
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
Charles Lamb
The true poet dreams being awake.
Charles Lamb
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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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.
Charles Lamb
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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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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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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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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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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