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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.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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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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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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