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"Na," said the man quietly, "it's no religion, it's curstness," i.e. crabbedness, insinuating that acerbity of temper, as well as zeal, was occasionally the cause of congregations being multiplied.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman