“Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.”

—  Giacomo Casanova

Source: The Story of My Life

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Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725–1798

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