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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Charles Lamb

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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
Thing
Bear
Bears
Creatures
Sweet
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Nature
Excepting
Children
Sweetest
Even
Delicate

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