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I could never hate anyone I knew.

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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
Anyone
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Never
Knew

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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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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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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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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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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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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