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Nope, I Don't Enjoy Work Generally. Not Because I'm Lazy; It's Just All So Stressful And Worrying.

To Criticize A Person For Their Race Is Manifestly Irrational And Ridiculous, But To Criticize Their Religion, That Is A Right. That Is A Freedom. The Freedom To Criticize Ideas, Any Ideas - Even If They Are Sincerely Held Beliefs - Is One Of The Fundamental Freedoms Of Society. A Law Which Attempts To Say You Can Criticize And Ridicule Ideas As Long As They Are Not Religious Ideas Is A Very Peculiar Law Indeed.

The Job Is Interesting, And The Task Is Difficult, But The Man [maigret] Is Just A Decent Man Doing A Very Ordinary Job.

I'm As Poor As A Church Mouse, That's Just Had An Enormous Tax Bill On The Very Day His Wife Ran Off With Another Mouse, Taking All The Cheese.

Paris In The Mid-'50s Was A Very Interesting Place. It Was Only Ten Years After The Third Reich Had Left, And The City Was Awash With Guns, And Crime, And Racketeering, And All Sorts Of Hangovers From A Very Difficult Time In French History. So It's An Interesting Time To Be A Policeman.