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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
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London
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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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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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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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The true poet dreams being awake.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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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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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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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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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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