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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Translator
Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Firesides
Cats
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Comfort

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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm the comfort of mankind.
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Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
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Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me!
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The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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Patience and gentleness is power.
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There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.
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Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.
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I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.
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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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