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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Pretty
Upon
Doe
Look
Looks
Tombstone
Satire

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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
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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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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