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I am much fonder of receiving letters, than writing them: but I believe this is no very uncommon case.

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That creature on whose back abound
Black spots upon a yellow ground
A panther is — the fairest beast
That haunteth in the spacious East:
He underneath a fair outside
Does cruelty and treachery hide.


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I do not expect or want you to be otherwise than you are, I love you for the good that is in you, and look for no change.

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It is well enough when one is talking to a friend to hedge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then, but there is something mighty irksome, in its staring upon one in a letter where one ought only to see kind words and friendly remembrances.

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We need not be too strict in seeing
The failings of a fellow being.


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Mary Lamb

Mary Lamb
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Born: December 3, 1764
Died: May 20, 1847 (aged 82)
Bio: Mary Ann Lamb was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. Lamb suffered from mental illness, and in 1796 she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown.
Known for:
  1. Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
  2. More Tales from Shakespeare
  3. Othello
  4. Contes de Shakespeare

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