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Half as sober as a judge.

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
Sober
Judge
Judging
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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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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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The true poet dreams being awake.
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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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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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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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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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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.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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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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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 even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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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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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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