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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

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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
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Exhaled
May
Jest
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Drawn
Smoking
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Breaths

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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
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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 all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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