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maintain a community house and may establish
Community House Districts .—Wisconsin has passed an act whereby the people of any local area may vote to erect and maintain a community house and may establish the boundaries of the area in which the citizens shall have the right to tax themselves for this purpose, and to elect trustees of the house, in much the same manner as community school districts are established.
— from The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

model and calls him a man equal
The great and experienced master in a contemplative life, St. John Climacus, proposes St. Arsenius as an accomplished model, and calls him a man equal to the angels, 228 saying that he shunned so rigorously the conversation of men, only that he might not lose something more precious, which was God, who always filled his soul.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler


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