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

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
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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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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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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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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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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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The true poet dreams being awake.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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