“It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.”

—  Roald Dahl

"The Headmaster" in Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)

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