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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
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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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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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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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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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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