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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
Nobody
Half
Way
World
Meets

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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
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Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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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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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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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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I cannot sit and think books think for me.
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome and that's the some on't.
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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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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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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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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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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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