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“I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)

“O Bible chopped and crucified
in hymns we hear but do not read,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)