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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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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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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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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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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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