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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

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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
Enjoy
Prerogatives
Monarchical
Prerogative
Sick

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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.
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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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