““I have no need to expose myself to your flummery,” Mette said with dignity. “I believe in order that I may know. I do not know in order to believe.”
“I marvel at your spite. Of what possible benefit can this willful ignorance be to you?””
Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 4, “Flight” (pp. 59-60)
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