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A babe is fed with milk and praise.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Childhood
Babe
Feds
Milk
Praise

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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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In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
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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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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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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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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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It is good to love the unknown.
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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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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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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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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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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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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 sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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