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Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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Poet
Writer
London
England
Refuse
Conscience
Coleridge
Opinion
Dumplings
Cannot
Declares
Good
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Men
Confess
Apple
Apples

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