No one told me I was to contend with consuls and prefects and the most illustrious generals, who hardly know how to relieve themselves of their abundance of possessions. No one told me I was expected to put the treasuries of the church to the service of gluttony, and the poor-boxes to the services of luxury. No one told me I must be equipped with superb horses and mounted on an ornamental chariot, and there would be a great hush during my solemn progresses, and everyone must make way for the Patriarch
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