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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

Charles Lamb

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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
Arts
Backward
Beat
Retreat
Accounts
Bells
Beats
Ring
Shall
Burn
Science
Pretend
Civilize
Art
March
Unlearn
World
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Drums

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