Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
¶ The Country Wife
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William Wycherley (1640-1716) English dramatist
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
¶ The Plain Dealer
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