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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
Died
Taken
Gone
Faces
Left
Departed
Familiar

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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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