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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
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London
England
Literature
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Crutch
Crutches
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Walking

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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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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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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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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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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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