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Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Dorothy Day
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Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Dorothy Day
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Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need trouble himself further about their entertainment. The putting of dispersed sets of volumes together, or the turning right way up of those which the dusting housemaid has left in an apoplectic condition, appeals to them as one of the lesser Works of Mercy. Happy in these employments, and in occasionally opening an eighteenth-century octavo, to see 'what it is all about,' and to conclude after five minutes that it deserves the seclusion it now enjoys, I had reached the middle of a wet August afternoon at Betton Court...-the beginning of the story "A Neighbor's Landmark

M.R. James, A Warning to the Curious Ghost Stories
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