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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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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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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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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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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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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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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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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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