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Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
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