Oh, the Humility!

    I renewed my subscription to the Troy Record, unable to resist the incentives offered as enticement. As is general policy in much of business lately, the old loyal customers are asked to help pay the price of reeling in new customers.
   Anyway, the Record was delivered yesterday. I already get the Times Union, and while their Crossword is mind-numbingly easy, and the Jumble is, well, the Jumble, I have begun to actually look forward to the Cryptoquip, and pride myself on how skilled I have become at solving it --to read a whole sentence or two with the hint of only one letter.
  With time still on my hands, I perused the puzzle page of the Record, and found the crossword to be of a higher level than  that of the TU. I actually had to use both Across and Down clues instead of just reading and filling in one or the other. So, that done, I looked at their Cryptoquote:  4 lines and not a single letter for a clue. Egad, how can that be possible?  I dismissed it as an impossible exercise, but then had the thought that it appeared regularly. The newspaper paid the syndicate, so there must be a demand for it. Those readers can't all be geniuses, so I decided to give it a try. Applying both the elements of skill and common sense, I came up with:   NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF JEALOUSY AND THE POWER OF ENVY TO DESTROY----OLIVER STONE
   So now, to fill the moments of the day, I have 2 Cryptic exercises to solve---simple work for simple people.