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John Abernathy is referenced in Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter (1844).
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“There are people whom even childrens literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
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