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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
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Physicians
French
English
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Dies

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There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
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Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
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I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.
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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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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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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
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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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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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The world meets nobody half way.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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