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Famous Leigh Hunt Quotes
“Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.”
“For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.”
“No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.”
“Colors are the smiles of nature.”
“An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.”
“The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense”
“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”
“Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.”
“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.”
“The beautiful attracts the beautiful.”
“Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.”
“Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.”
“I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.”
“With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.”
“Patience and gentleness is power.”
“Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.”
“Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.”
“Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.”