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Complete Works of Charles Lamb (1882)"A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behavior of Married People" Essays of Elia (1820-1823)Athenaeum (London, Jan. 4, 1834)Bibliophile (1840)Complete Works (1882)

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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondency, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity.... He is known by his knock.

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (1775–1834), British essayist, critic. Last Essays of Elia, "Poor Relations," (1833).

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