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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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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 pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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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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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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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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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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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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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 laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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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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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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