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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

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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
Folly
Taught
Books
Woman
Book
Looks

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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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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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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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