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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
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
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I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
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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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Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue her fields, green her waters vary with her skies her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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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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There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
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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 beautiful attracts the beautiful.
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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A dog can have a friend he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates he offends, and is pardoned he stands by you in adversity he is a good fellow.
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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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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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Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
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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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The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
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Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
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