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The world meets nobody half way.

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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
Half
Way
World
Meets
Nobody

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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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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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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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