Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile …

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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last. ✨ The Life of Florence Nightingale by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 369), 1913.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last. ✨ The Life of Florence Nightingale by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 369), 1913.

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