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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
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Poet
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London
England
Watches
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Heaven
Eye
Around
Forgot
Earth
Wound
Wounds
Tongue

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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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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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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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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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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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