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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.

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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
Persons
Private
Violation
Mind
Characters
Belonging
Life
Actor
Closely
Stage
Identify
Imagination
Relations
Actors
Assume
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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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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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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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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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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