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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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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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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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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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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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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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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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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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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