The
highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and
treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and
who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.
– Saint
Francis de Sales
Saint
Francis de Sales'
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