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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.

Charles Lamb

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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
Make
Party
Remainder
Friends
Alphabet
Common
Link
Away
Links
Part
Precious
Doe
Loses
Going
Takes
Sickens
Much
Dies
Subtraction

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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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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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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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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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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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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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