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It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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