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Chapter XIX.; original source section: Chapter 19; original book/conference: V. Conference of Abbot Serapion.

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got rid of incentives to all other passions, and are retiring to the desert with perfect fervour of spirit and bodily abnegation, yet still cannot do without thought for their daily meal and the preparation of their food from year to year.

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