Mac book pro with lion very sluggish

I have a mac book pro running lion 10.7.5 with 8GB of RAM; last few months has be come very sluggish. Any clean up or other things i can do to restore to orignial performance?

Clone backup your data to two separate locations, then we can look at why.

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