The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
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We live among you, eat the same food, wear the same clothes . . . We sojourn with you in the world, renouncing neither forum nor market, nor bath, nor booth, nor workshop, nor inn . . . We till the ground with you, we join with you in business ventures.
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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
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