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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
Essayist
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Literary Historian
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Novelist
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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Summer
Lap
Spring
Wet
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April
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Chill
Doe
Length
May
Season
Contentious
Come
Seasons
Chilling
Long
Winter
Stormy

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