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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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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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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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