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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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Half as sober as a judge.
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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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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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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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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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The true poet dreams being awake.
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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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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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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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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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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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