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No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

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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
Caprice
Dresses
Mere
Woman

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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
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Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
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