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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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London
England
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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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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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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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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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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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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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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