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

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Breath
Breaths
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Exhaled
May
Jest
Pipe
Drawn
Smoking

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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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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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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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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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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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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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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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Not if I know myself at all.
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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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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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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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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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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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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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