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I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

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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
Disgusting
Impertinent
Ordinary
Impertinence
Upon
Inscribed
Disgust
Tombstone
Familiarity
Conceive

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I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
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