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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
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No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
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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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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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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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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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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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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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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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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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Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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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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