“Witty and apt. If there are people wiser than we are, then there are people more right than we are, and we may be mistaken, you mean? Mais, ma bonne amie , granted that I may make a mistake, yet have I not the common, human, eternal, supreme right of freedom of conscience? I have the right not to be bigoted or superstitious if I don’t wish to, and for that I shall naturally be hated by certain persons to the end of time. Et puis, comme on trouve toujours plus de moines que de raison , and as I thoroughly agree with that⁠ ⁠…”

“What, what did you say?”

“I said, on trouve toujours plus de moines que de raison , and as I thoroughly⁠ ⁠…”

“I’m sure that’s not your saying. You must have taken it from somewhere.”

“It was Pascal said that.”