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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

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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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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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