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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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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Works
Perhaps
Next
Best
Nothing
Thing
Good
Men
Positively

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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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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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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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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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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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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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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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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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Mother's love grows by giving.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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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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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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