To be sure, there’s a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you’re doing what I always warned you agin: you’re a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do… Don’t you worry that John Faa’s heart is too soft to strike a blow when the time comes. And the time will come under judgement. Not under passion.

To be sure, there’s a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends, you’re doing what I always warned you agin: you’re a placing the satisfaction of your own feelings above the work you have to do… Don’t you worry that John Faa’s heart is too soft to strike a blow when the time comes. And the time will come under judgement. Not under passion.

– Philip Pullman –

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