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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

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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
Sweetest
Sweet
Child
Nature
Children
Thing

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