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

Charles Lamb

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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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Sticks
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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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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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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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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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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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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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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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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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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