A Benefactor of Mankind
Two Period Pieces

Not...but...

Not to accept everything, but to understand everything; not to approve of everything, but to forgive everything; not to adopt everything, but to search for the grain of truth that is contained in everything.

To reject no idea and no good intention, however awkward or feeble.

--Elisabeth Leseur (via Magnificat)

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Aside from being generally applicable, this describes my job perfectly.

Have you ever read her diaries?

AMDG

No, I don't know anything about her apart from the brief notes attached to her quotations in Magnificat.

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