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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
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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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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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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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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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The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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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 could never hate anyone I knew.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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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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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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