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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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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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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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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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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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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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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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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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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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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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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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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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