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

—  Leigh Hunt

Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard.
Confer Colley Cibber: "Stolen sweets are best."

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English critic, essayist, poet and writer 1784–1859

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