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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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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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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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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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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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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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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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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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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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