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It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
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London
England
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Relation
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English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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