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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

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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
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London
England
Likings
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Bundles
Prejudices
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Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
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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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Mother's love grows by giving.
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To sigh, yet feel no pain To weep, yet scarce know why To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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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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