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  • They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

    George Bernard Shaw (2006). “Three Plays for Puritans”, p.36, Penguin UK