English - Critic | February 10, 1775 - December 27, 1834
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Charles Lamb
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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