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AND SO he is driven about, and more and more inflamed with the love of
his money, which when it is acquired, never allows a monk either to remain
in a monastery or to live under the discipline of a rule. And when
separating him like some wild beast from the rest of the herd, it has made
him through want of companions an animal fit for prey, and caused him to be
easily eaten up, as he is deprived of fellow lodgers, it forces him, who
once thought it beneath him to perform the slight duties of the monastery,
to labour without stopping night and day, through hope of gain; it suffers
him to keep no services of prayer, no system of fasting, no rule of vigils;
it does not allow him to fulfil the duties of seemly intercession, If only
he can satisfy the madness of avarice, and supply his daily wants;
inflaming the more the fire of covetousness, while believing that it will
be extinguished by getting.
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