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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

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Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
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James Henry Leigh Hunt
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When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
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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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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.
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Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me!
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.
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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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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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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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