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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.
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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London
England
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Milton
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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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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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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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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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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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