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“Grace, which is charity, contains in itself all virtues in a hidden and potential manner, like the leaves and the branches of the oak hidden in the meat of an acorn. To be an acorn is to have a taste for being an oak tree.”

Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), 20.
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