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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Better
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Men
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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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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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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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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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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