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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

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
Affectation
Affecting
Pleasure

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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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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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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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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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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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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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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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