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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.

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
Care
Much
Never
Separate
Life
Mountain
Friendship
Company
Pleasure
Another

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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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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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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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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 can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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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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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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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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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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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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