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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

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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
Spindle
Mutilate
Fold
Folds
Gambling

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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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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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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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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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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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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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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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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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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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Not if I know myself at all.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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