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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Afterwards
Book
Mind

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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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