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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

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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
Introduce
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Attitude
Hate
Men
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