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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me all are departed All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

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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
Departed
Familiar
Died
Taken
Gone
Faces
Left

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I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!
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A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
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A babe is fed with milk and praise.
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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