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Of Human Bondage 8Maugham 9

 

He made Philip acknowledge that those South Germans whom he saw in the Jesuit church were every bit as firmly convinced of the truth of Roman Catholicism as he was of that of the Church of England, and from that he led him to admit that the Mahommedan and the Buddhist were convinced also of the truth of their respective religions. It looked as though knowing that you were right meant nothing; they all knew they were right.
-- W. Somerset Maugham. Of Human Bondage (novel, 1915) Chapter 28.
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