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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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Poet
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London
England
Crutch
Crutches
Stick
Sticks
Walking
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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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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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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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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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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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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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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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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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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