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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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Southgate
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James Henry Leigh Hunt
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There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
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The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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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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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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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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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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There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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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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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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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
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If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
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