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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
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Law
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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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.
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