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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
Spindle
Mutilate
Fold
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Gambling

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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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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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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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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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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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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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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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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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