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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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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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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Not if I know myself at all.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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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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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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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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The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: I hate that man. But you don't know him. Of course, I don't, said Lamb. Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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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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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
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You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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