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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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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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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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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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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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