“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”
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The Sacred books and Early literature of the East, Vol. 5, p. 22 https://archive.org/details/sacredbooksearly05hornuoft/page/18/mode/2up
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