- Joba: Why don't you leave our boy in peace?
- Dreverhaven: I'll strangle him for nine-tenths, and the last tenth will make him strong.
- De Gankelaar: Who taught you that senseless self-chastisement? I give you the money and you take it! People who can't accept a gift have nothing to give themselves.
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- Jacob Katadreuffe: I came to tell you. Today I have been sworn in as a lawyer. You must be sorry but I am sworn in and this is the last time I'll come here. Farewell for ever. You no longer exist for me.
- Dreverhaven: Congratulations.
- Jacob Katadreuffe: You congratulate me? I can't take your hand. The hand of someone who always opposed me.
- Dreverhaven: Or helped.
- [pause]
- Dreverhaven: Or helped.