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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
Improvement
Nature

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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful not the graceful, but the fantastic not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.
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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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