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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
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Poet
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London
England
Sober
Judge
Judging
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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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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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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