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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
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Read
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Think
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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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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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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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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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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