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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
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Mutilate
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Gambling

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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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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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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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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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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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