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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
Gambling
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Not if I know myself at all.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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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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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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