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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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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Dream
Wildness
Tasted
Grandeur
Fancy
Mad
Till
Gone

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