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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

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
Never
Separate
Life
Mountain
Friendship
Company
Pleasure
Another
Care
Much

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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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