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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
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
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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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