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Horace Smith

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Historical figure who hosted a dinner attended by John Keats where Keats observed fashionable men whose wit he found inferior to humor.

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"I dined too (for I have been out too much lately) with Horace Smith & met his two brothers with Hill & Kingston & one Du Bois, they only served to convince me, how superior humour is to wit in respect to enjoyment"
from Keats's Dec 1818 letter to his brothers · u/NadruYakhni · ↑28 · 2021-11-22
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