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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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Writing is all a lottery — I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
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Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want.
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8 June. At London. I am pent up in frowsy lodgings, where there is not room enough to swing a cat.
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I find my spirits and my health affect each other reciprocally — that is to say, everything that decomposes my mind produces a correspondent disorder in my body; and my bodily complaints are remarkably mitigated by those considerations that dissipate the clouds of mental chagrin.
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Born:
March 19, 1721
Died:
September 17, 1771
(aged 50)
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