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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

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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
Woman
Caprice
Dresses
Mere

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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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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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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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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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