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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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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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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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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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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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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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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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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