Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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