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1. "Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds..." ~ Leigh Hunt
2. "Stolen kisses are always sweetest." ~ Leigh Hunt
3. "Colors are the smiles of nature." ~ Leigh Hunt
4. "Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears." ~ Leigh Hunt
5. "Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice." ~ Leigh Hunt
6. "The groundwork of all happiness is health." ~ Leigh Hunt
7. "It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old." ~ Leigh Hunt
8. "The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man." ~ Leigh Hunt
9. "There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination." ~ Leigh Hunt
10. "Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant." ~ Leigh Hunt
11. "Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion." ~ Leigh Hunt
12. "Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making." ~ Leigh Hunt
13. "Jenny kissed me when we met,Jumping from the chair she sat in;Time, you thief, who love to getSweets into your list, put that in:Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,Say that health and wealth have missed me,Say I'm growing old, but add--Jenny kissed me!" ~ Leigh Hunt
14. "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" ~ Leigh Hunt
15. "Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses." ~ Leigh Hunt
16. "If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating." ~ Leigh Hunt
17. "If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating." ~ Leigh Hunt

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Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself."
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