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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
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London
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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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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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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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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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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