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My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

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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
Folly
Taught
Books
Woman
Book
Looks

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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!
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