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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
Judging
Half
Sober
Judge

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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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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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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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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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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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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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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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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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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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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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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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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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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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