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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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London
England
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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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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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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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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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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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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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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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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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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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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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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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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