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«The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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dead letter, for all intents and purposes, intents, to all intents and purposes
«Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.»
«How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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enlarges, exclusive, inculcate, inculcated, sickness
«His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.»
«Gone before / To that unknown and silent shore.»
«When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, `Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'»
«When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with them / that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance / that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains / how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. / I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.»
«We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one»
«I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair»
«There is a pleasure in affecting affectation»
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