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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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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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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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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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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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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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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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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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