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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
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London
England
Thinking
Books
Reading
Cannot
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Think

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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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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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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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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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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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