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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Leigh Hunt

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
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If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks In puns of tulips and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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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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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
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