A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen.
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished
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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
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