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It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

Charles Lamb

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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
Good
Pure
Mingling
Men
Doe
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Littles
Clouded
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Altar
Wells
Altars
Well
Steam
Devotions
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Devotion
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Polluting

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