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By myself walking, To myself talking.

Charles Lamb

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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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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
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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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Half as sober as a judge.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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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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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
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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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Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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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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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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