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MORTIFICATION
Far from being like to those great souls who from their childhood practise all sorts of macerations, I made my mortification consist solely in the breaking of my will, restraining a hasty word, rendering little services to those around me without making anything of it, and a thousand other things of this kind.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. VI
As I had no taste for games, I should
have liked to spend my life reading, but
I was only to take a very limited time
for this chosen recreation, and this was
the ground of many a sacrifice, for I
made it a point of duty to break off
promptly at the end of the time allotted,
