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The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet, critic. quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. 2, ch. 1 (1988).
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