Thomas Merton
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In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his favorite notions of personal hygiene. Everybody knew that his class was liable to degenerate into a demonstration of some practical points about rowing, with Buggy sitting on the table and showing us how to pull an oar. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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