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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
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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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It is good to love the unknown.
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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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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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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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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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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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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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