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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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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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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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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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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
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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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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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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
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O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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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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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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Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
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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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Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
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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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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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