Some of the humour that I enjoyed was related to religion (which probably says more about me than the book

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It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor’s wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.
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A Methodist tray: not flamboyant, but quietly affirmative of its own worth.
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for a woman as pious as she was, she lied very well;
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Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole.
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"The Methodists like their monuments monumental; block-like, unmistakable, like the thick black lines drawn under finalized accounts in his father’s ledger book: Paid In Full.
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Not sure if I was supposed to find all those funny (I never got the impression that Grace laughed at much). There were some less humorous expressions that I highlighted:
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surely the insane, like idiots and cripples, owe their state to Almighty Providence, and one should not attempt to reverse decisions which are certainly just, although inscrutable to us.
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they think the church is a cage to keep God in,
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