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personagem no romance Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens
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“A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”
“Monasticism, retreat from the world, reclusivism, that’s a lot of crap.”
“Academe needs deprofessionalization and deyuppification. It has to recover its clerical or spiritual roots. Scholarship is an ideal and a calling, not merely a trade or living. Every year at commencement, we put on medieval robes that connect us to a great monastic past.”
“Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast—almost grotesquely—to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.”
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Edward "Monks" Leeford é um personagem fictício e um dos principais antagonistas no romance de 1838 Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens. Ele é na verdade o meio-irmão com inclinação criminosa de Oliver Twist, mas esconde sua identidade. Os pais de Monks se separaram quando ele era criança, e seu pai teve um relacionamento com uma jovem mulher, Agnes Fleming. Isso resultou na gravidez de Agnes. Ela morreu no parto após dar à luz o bebê que seria chamado de Oliver Twist.
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