"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
-William Congreve
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"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.“
-William Congreve
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