"When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'"
— Charles Lamb

January 1, 1970

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Letter to Proctor (22 January 1829), in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (2000), p. 526