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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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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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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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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 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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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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