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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
Caprice
Dresses
Mere
Woman

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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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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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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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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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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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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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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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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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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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