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Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.
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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London
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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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