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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK V - CHAPTER VI
  by St. Augustine
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10. For almost the whole of the nine years that I listened with
unsettled mind to the Manichean teaching I had been looking forward with
unbounded eagerness to the arrival of this Faustus. For all the other
members of the sect that I happened to meet, when they were unable to
answer the questions I raised, always referred me to his coming. They
promised that, in discussion with him, these and even greater
difficulties, if I had them, would be quite easily and amply cleared
away. When at last he did come, I found him to be a man of pleasant
speech, who spoke of the very same things they themselves did, although
more fluently and in a more agreeable style. But what profit was there
to me in the elegance of my cupbearer, since he could not offer me the
more precious draught for which I thirsted? My ears had already had
their fill of such stuff, and now it did not seem any better because it
was better expressed nor more true because it was dressed up in
rhetoric; nor could I think the man\\

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