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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
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Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
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For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
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