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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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Literary Critic
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Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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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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Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
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Improvement is nature.
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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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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Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls to love and peace attain? - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt
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To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
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A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
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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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Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
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Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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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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Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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An author is like a baker it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
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Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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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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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
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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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