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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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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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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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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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The world meets nobody half way.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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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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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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