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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
Half

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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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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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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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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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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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The world meets nobody half way.
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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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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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