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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
Tombstone
Satire
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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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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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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