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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
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London
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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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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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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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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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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