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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
Physicians
French
English
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Dies

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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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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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Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
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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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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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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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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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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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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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