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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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
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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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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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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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