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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
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I cannot sit and think 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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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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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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The world meets nobody half way.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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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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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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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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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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