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If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

No Female shall walk in any public place without continually keeping up her Peace-cry, under penalty of death.

Any Female, duly certified to be suffering from St. Vitus's Dance, fits, chronic cold accompanied by violent sneezing, or any disease necessitating involuntary motions, shall be instantly destroyed.

The wildest of them all was a gentleman who pretended to be the sixteenth volume of Otto's Encyclopedia and asked everybody to open him and to find the entry: "Cardboard box stapling machine", otherwise he would be done for. He only quietened down when they put him in a straightjacket. Then he was happy, because he thought he had got into a bookbinder's press and begged to be given a modern trim.

"...laws that intimidate but are not enforced become like the log that was king of the frogs: at first it frightened them, but in time they came to despise it and climbed up on it."

"And so, I say that when this farmer came to the house of this nobleman, and may his soul rest in peace because he's dead now, and he died the death of an angel from what people tell me, since I wasn't present at the time because I had gone to Tembleque to work in the harvest—"
"On your life, my son, return quickly from Tembleque, and without burying the nobleman, and unless you want more funerals finish your story."

Almost there.