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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

Charles Lamb

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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
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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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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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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