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Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

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
World
Grown
Childhood
Enchantments
Dead
Enchantment
Child
Bosom
Left
Bosoms
Best
Earliest
Children
Wisest
Heart
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