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Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_028: Not one whit more easily are the words learnt for all this vileness; but by t...
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Not one whit more easily are the words learnt for all this vileness; but by their means the vileness is committed with less shame. Not that I blame the words, being, as it were, choice and precious vessels; but that wine of error which is drunk to us in them by intoxicated teachers; and if we, too, drink not, we are beaten, and have no sober judge to whom we may appeal. Yet, O my God (in whose presence I now without hurt may remember this), all this unhappily I learnt willingly with great delight, and for this was pronounced a hopeful boy.
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Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400) · aug_conf_01_028
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