Leigh Hunt Quotes - Page 5

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• We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.

  Leigh Hunt

  Believe, Secret, Wish

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• The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

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  Safety, Church, Rooms

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”, p.170

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• With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

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  Lying, Sunny, Spots

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings”, p.40, Routledge

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• I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

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  Book, Reading, Weather

  Leigh Hunt (1835). “The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side”, p.183

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• Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

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  Wit, Clash, Meetings

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”

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