Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even th…

Thomas Merton
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Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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