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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

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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
Mind
Borne
Till
Absence
Presence
Question
Called
Came
Body

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