Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. (William Butler Yeats)

Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

William Butler Yeats

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