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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
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Poet
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London
England
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Books
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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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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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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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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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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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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