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A dog can have a friend he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates he offends, and is pardoned he stands by you in adversity he is a good fellow.

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
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Southgate
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James Henry Leigh Hunt
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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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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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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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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this with it she is triumphant.
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Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate others, because we are humane many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.
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O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
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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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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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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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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
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