It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
Source: Mrs. Alving, in Ghosts, act 2.
-- Henrik Ibsen, (Mar 20 1828-1906), Norweigan poet, dramatist; He introduced moral analysis of a realistic middle-class background in A Doll's House, 1879.