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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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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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