{"date":"February 10","id":"02-10","intro":["Voltaire once visited Congreve. This famous dramatist requested to be regarded only as a plain gentleman. “Had you been that I should never have come to see you,” Voltaire cynically replies."],"minutes":24,"readings":[{"author":"Voltaire","end":140,"start":130,"volume":34,"work":"Letters on the English"}],"slug":"february-10","status":"proofread","title":"No Fancy for a Plain Gentleman","url":"/harvard-classics/february-10/","words":4717}