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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 with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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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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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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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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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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