““Good God!” he mummered. “I don‘t know what to believe.”
“In that respect,” returned Vance, “you‘re in the same disheartenin‘ predic‘ment as all the philosophers.””

—  S. S. Van Dine , book The Benson Murder Case

Source: The Benson Murder Case (1926), Ch. 23

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