Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
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I have named the destroyers of nations comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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