A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature. - Charles Lamb

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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

Charles Lamb

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About Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist and poet, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.

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Pen Names: Elia

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'

Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."