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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

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
Translator
Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Second
Hand
Bookseller
Chance
Dispenses
Hands
Booksellers
Treasures
Treasure
None
Worth

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