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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
Way
World
Meets
Nobody
Half

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Half as sober as a judge.
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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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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
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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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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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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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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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It is good to love the unknown.
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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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I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
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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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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
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