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— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov"And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ."
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The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.
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