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And so I suppose wou"}, {"id": "card_n_5d517d027d18", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_002: When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Church...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Churches built in memory of the Saints, certain cakes, and bread and wine, and was forbidden by the door-keeper; so soon as she k"}, {"id": "card_n_09118272b605", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_016: And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was goi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was going down to hell, carrying all the sins which I had committed, both against Thee, and myself, and others, many and grievous,"}, {"id": "card_n_9f1c1ac9e38b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_031: Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, and love, and long for it? 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He did not under the name of "}, {"id": "card_n_e86ce1a42d1e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_011: But what speak I of these things?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what speak I of these things? for now is no time to question, but to confess unto Thee. 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Whereupon those difficulties vanished away, wherein he once seemed to me to contradict himself, and th"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. 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