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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
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Poet
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London
England
Babe
Feds
Milk
Praise
Childhood

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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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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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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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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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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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