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

— Leigh Hunt Table-Talk (1851)

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Stolen sweets are always sweeter,
Stolen kisses much completer,
Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!

The Story of Rimini (1816)

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Table-Talk (1851)

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

The Story of Rimini (1816)

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