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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

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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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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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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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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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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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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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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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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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