“He seems to have been a serpent of serpents in the bosom of all the nineties. That in itself endears him to one.”

— Frederick Rolfe

D. H. Lawrence, in Adelphi (December 1925); cited from Michael Herbert (ed.) Selected Critical Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) p. 200.
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