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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
Familiarity
Conceive
Disgusting
Ordinary
Impertinent
Upon
Impertinence
Inscribed
Disgust
Tombstone

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Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
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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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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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