"Some are jealous of being successors of the Apostles. I would rather be a successor of the Samaritan woman, who, while the Apostles went for meat and forgot souls, forgot her water pot in her zeal to spread the good tidings."
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"He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue."
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