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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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It is good to love the unknown.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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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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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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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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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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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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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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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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