Timothy Dexter was a patron of poets, artists and philosophers. He painted his house in garish colors to show how elegant he was. But the lavishness or niceness of it didn't really last. There's a reason why Timothy's Dexter wife was seldom at the house.
It is perhaps the wildest story yet. The story of a man who did everything wrong but somehow came out even better every time
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