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I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

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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Puns
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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