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A Saint (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠show no mortal failing after three days of watching — until, on the fourth, his wife comes to consult the doctor.

A Saint (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠sometimes only a heretic whose vision dogma managed to absorb; otherwise he would have been a lunatic and ended at the stake.

A Saint (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠hard to live with: the odour of sanctity may give the less gifted an inferiority complex — or a wild outburst of immorality.

The Saint (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a father is a hazard: what sins must his children commit just to feel their lives are their own?

A Saint (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠often a bit of a heretic: anyone with immediate experience of God stands a little outside the Church, which would have fared badly had the Son of God stayed a law-abiding Pharisee.