Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to…

Charles Lamb
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ✨ Charles Lamb (1839). Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, p.205
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ✨ Charles Lamb (1839). Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, p.205

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