“I have always found the religious tolerance of the southerners amazing and disconcerting, though it was really only an ancient habit predicated on the fact that no religious community was strong enough to show the rest the errors in their thinking at swordspoint.”

—  Glen Cook, book She Is the Darkness

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 60 (p. 481)

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