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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Shelley is saying that revenge is like a crude, primitive god that people in less civilized times blindly follow. He suggests that such behavior belongs to an earlier, less advanced stage of human society.

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