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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

Charles Lamb

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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
Something
Rove
Make
Blissful
Love
Near
Think
Lips
Thinking
Dear
Sweet
Sure
Find

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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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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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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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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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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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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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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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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 conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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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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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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