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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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Poet
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London
England
Men
Melancholy
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Rare
Journalism
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Street
Fleet
Streets
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