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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
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Crutches
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Sticks
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Literature

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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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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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