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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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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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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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