• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

  Leigh Hunt
  British poet, essaywriter 1784-1859
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. melancholy
2. magnifying
3. microscope
4. enlarging
5. monsters
6. objects

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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. by : Leigh Hunt

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