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And I think that before anything else we ought to touch on their
untiring perseverance and humility and subjection,-- how it lasts for so
long, and by what system it is formed, through which they remain in the
monasteries till they are bent double with old age; for it is so great that
we cannot recollect any one who joined our monasteries keeping it up
unbroken even for a year: so that when we have seen the beginning of their
renunciation of the world, we shall understand how it came about that,
starting from such a commencement, they reached such a height of
perfection.
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