The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility
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The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.Charles Lamb
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.'
Charles Lamb
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door
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