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"If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career."
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"The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realised it he is not a complete human being, he has not …"
— Evelyn Underhill
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