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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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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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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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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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