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Improvement is nature.

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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
Nature
Improvement

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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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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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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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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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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
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An author is like a baker it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
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An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks In puns of tulips and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
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A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.
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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
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If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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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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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
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Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.
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