“Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.”
"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959
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“I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.”
Book XXI, ch. 1
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies

“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.”
Lecture at Cleveland, Ohio (February 3, 1932), reported in Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963 (1974), vol. 5, p. 5130; referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression.
The 1930s
“Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother
With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.”
"I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great"
Poems (1933)
Context: What is precious is never to forget
The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs
Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth;
Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light,
Nor its grave evening demand for love;
Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother
With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

St. 5.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)