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Comus All Allows

The smile of beauty, and the flush of wine,
For fops, fools, gamesters, knaves, and lords combine:
Each to his humour — Comus all allows;⁠
Champaign, dice, music, or your neighbour's spouse.

Lord Byron (1809)

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