The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

ATHEIST: "I laugh because I see what ignorant people you are — to take
so tedious a journey, and yet are likely to gain nothing for your travel
but pains."
CHRISTIAN: "Why do you think we shall not be received?”
ATHEIST: "Received! There is no such place as you dream of in all this
world!"
CHRISTIAN: "That is true — but there is in the world to come."
ATHEIST: "When I was at home in my own country, I heard of that place
which you speak of. So I went out to find it — and have been seeking
this City for these past twenty years; but I have not found it in all this
time!”
CHRISTIAN: "We have both heard and believe that there is such a place
to be found!”
ATHEIST: "Had not I, when at home, also believed — I would not have
come thus far to seek it. If there had been such a place, I would have
surely found it by now — for I have gone much further than you. So not
finding it, I am going back home again, and will seek the pleasures
which I had then cast away — for the vain hope of a world to come."
Then Christian said to Hopeful, "Do you think that what this man has
said is true?"
HOPEFUL: "Take heed — he is one of the flatterers! Remember what it
has cost us once already for our hearkening to such a fellow. What! No
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