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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
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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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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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
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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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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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