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Not if I know myself at all.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
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By myself walking, To myself talking.
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Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
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