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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
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London
England
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Tombstone
Satire
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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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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Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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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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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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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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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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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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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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