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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
English
Kill
Dies
Physicians
French

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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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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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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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