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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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Poet
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London
England
Littles
Soul
Little
Trying
Men

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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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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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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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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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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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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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