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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
Think
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Books
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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