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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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Poet
Writer
London
England
Surely
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Purpose
Night
Unconquerable
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Tobacco
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World
Smoking

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