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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

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

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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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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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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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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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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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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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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
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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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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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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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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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