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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

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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London
England
Likings
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Prejudices
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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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It is good to love the unknown.
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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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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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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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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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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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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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