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    You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)