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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
Feds
Milk
Praise
Childhood
Babe

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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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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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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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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 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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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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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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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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