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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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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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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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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
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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 cannot sit and think books think for me.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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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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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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