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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
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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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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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