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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

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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
Desirous
Sharing
Opinions
Species
Property
Opinion
Always

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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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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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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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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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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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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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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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