For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. (Francis Bacon)

For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

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