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Foldal.
How can I believe in the teeth of all reason? You would have to be legally rehabilitated
Borkman.
Go on! go on!
Foldal.
It's true I never passed my examination; but I have read enough law to know that
Borkman.
[Quickly.] It is impossible, you mean?
Foldal.
There is no precedent for such a thing.
Borkman.
Exceptional men are above precedents.
Foldal.
The law knows nothing of such distinctions.
Borkman.
[Harshly and decisively.] You are no poet, Vilhelm.
Foldal.
[Unconsciously folding his hands.] Do you say that in sober earnest?
Borkman.
[Dismissing the subject, without answering.] We are only wasting each other's time. You had better not come here again.
