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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
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London
England
Sober
Judge
Judging
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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