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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb

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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
Left
Departed
Familiar
Died
Taken
Gone
Faces

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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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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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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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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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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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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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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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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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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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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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