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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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Poet
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London
England
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Likings
Plainer
Bundle
Bundles
Prejudices
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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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 could never hate anyone I knew.
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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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Half as sober as a judge.
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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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Mother's love grows by giving.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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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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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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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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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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