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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
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London
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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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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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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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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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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