Leigh Hunt
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"James Henry Leigh Hunt", best known as "Leigh Hunt", was an England/English critic, essayist, poet, and writer.

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If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Jenny kiss'd 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 miss'd me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kiss'd m.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Colors are the smiles of nature.