“Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.”

As quoted in "The Sleep of Trees" (1980) by Jane Yolen, in Tales of Wonder (1983) by Jane Yolen, p. 33

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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