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

Charles Lamb

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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
Thinking
Books
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Read
Anything
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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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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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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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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We are nothing less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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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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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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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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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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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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