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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
Books
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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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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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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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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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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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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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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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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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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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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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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