Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its u…

Charles Lamb
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. ✨ Charles Lamb (2008). The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.
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