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There was a little man, and he had a little soul And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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London
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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.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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