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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
Life
Mountain
Friendship
Company
Pleasure
Another
Care
Much
Never
Separate

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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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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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