You might enjoy success. But you always live with failure. Charles Lamb certainly did

Charles Lamb
Alamy/the Granger Collection

Charles Lamb – antiquarian, poet, man of letters, enfant terrible of English romanticism – lived out many vocations, and all of them badly.

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