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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.

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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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Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.
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Fishes do not roar they cannot express any sound of suffering and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
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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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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
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