“There is no sport in hate where all the rage
Is on one side.”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines to a Reviewer http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/section229.html (1821), l. 3

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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