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Mother's love grows by giving.

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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
Grows
Family
Mother
Giving
Love
Motherhood
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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
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