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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Pun
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Knew
Enemy
Never
Men
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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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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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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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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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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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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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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