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By myself walking, To myself talking.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Walking
Talking

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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
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Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
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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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You may derive thoughts from others your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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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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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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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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You look wise, pray correct that error.
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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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