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I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
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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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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
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