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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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London
England
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Came
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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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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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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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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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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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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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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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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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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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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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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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