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I cannot sit and think books think for me.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Books
Reading
Cannot
Book
Think
Thinking

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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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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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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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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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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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