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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Culinary
Gentle
Cooking
Inspire
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Food
Asparagus
Inspires

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The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.
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Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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