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“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

Observing the human appetite for competition and play · Essay

About Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

10 February 1775–27 December 1834

Charles Lamb was born on 10 February 1775 in Crown Office Row, within London’s Inner Temple, and died on 27 December 1834 in Edmonton, then a village north of the city. He became one of the most distinctive voices in English literature not through a vast epic, a celebrated novel, or the public authority of a major…

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