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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

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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
Affectation
Affecting
Pleasure

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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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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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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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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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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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