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While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

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
Children
Childhood
Dreams
Holy
Shall
Imagination
Producing
Left
Spread
Dream
Totally
Earth
Wings

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