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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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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Watches
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Heaven
Eye
Around
Forgot
Earth
Wound
Wounds
Tongue

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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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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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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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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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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
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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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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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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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