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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

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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
Familiarity
Conceive
Disgusting
Ordinary
Impertinent
Upon
Impertinence
Inscribed
Disgust
Tombstone

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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
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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 eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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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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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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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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