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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
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London
England
Bundles
Prejudices
Prejudice
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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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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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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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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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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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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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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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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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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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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