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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
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London
England
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Anything
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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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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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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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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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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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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Not if I know myself at all.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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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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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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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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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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