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 and did  Look, that was cruel! He grudged me the last vestige of the martyr’s glory, I was not to be made important through prosecution, nor unhappy through excessive wit! O, Duclari O, Verbrugge  it was calculated once and for all to make one loathe epigrams and turkeys! So little encouragement quenches the flame of genius unto the last spark inclusive; I never did it again!”