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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
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Bundle
Bundles
Prejudices
Prejudice
Words
Made
Likings
Plainer

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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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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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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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