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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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