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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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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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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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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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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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