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No work is worse than overwork the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
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London
England
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Worse
Food
Work
Mind
Preys
Unwholesome
Overwork

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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
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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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