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Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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