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"With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes; The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation." – Samuel Butler, 'Hudibras', Part III (1678), Canto I, line 1,495.
"American literature sounds like a child learning to talk, and then aping its elders; Russian literature is the voice of a giant, waking from a long sleep, and becoming articulate. It is as though the world had watched this giant's deep slumber for a long time, wondering what he would say when he awakened. And what he has said has been well worth the thousand years of waiting." – W. L. Phelps. 'Essays on Russian Novelists' (1911), page 2.