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St. Yvo Helori on the Value of Charity and Almsgiving

> He distributed his corn, or the price for which... (continued)

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"But I," replied the Saint, "a hundredfold by giving it immediately away." -Butler's Lives of Saints
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...he answered, "I know not whether I shall be then alive to give it."

Another time the same person said to him, "I have gained a fifth by keeping my corn." (continued)
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he sold it, among the poor immediately after the harvest.

When a certain person endeavored to persuade him to keep it some months, that he might sell it at a better price...