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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
Ordinary
Impertinent
Upon
Impertinence
Inscribed
Disgust
Tombstone
Familiarity
Conceive

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