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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

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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
Writer
London
England
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Tombstone
Satire
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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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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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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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How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
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I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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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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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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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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