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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

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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
Persian
Eyes
Heaven
Eye
Black
Made
Lemonade

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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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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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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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