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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
Species
Property
Opinion
Always
Desirous
Sharing
Opinions

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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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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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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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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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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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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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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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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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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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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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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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