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Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

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
Books
Believing
Race
Proof
Whatever
Noble
Wells
Remain
Book
Creatures
Well
Capable
Proofs
Believe
Circumstances
Stimulate
Mankind
Eternally

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