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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
Never
Men
Puns
Natured
Pun
Ill
Knew
Enemy

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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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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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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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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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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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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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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