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Excerpt from The Witness of the Saints: Or the Saints and the Church You think of nothing but legends, said John Columbini to his wife, I have my warehouse to get back to; and he threw the book she had given him into the middle of the room. He was a shrewd, prudent, practical man of business, a member of the Municipal Council of Siena, his native city, and known alike for his success in making money and for his administrative ability. He had come home hungry from his warehouse, and wished to return to it, as he said, as soon as possible. To read the volume of Saints' Lives, as his wife suggested, whilst dinner was preparing, seemed to him simple waste of time. What could the Saints tell him of the price of cloth, of the fall or rise of stock, of imports and exports, of the doings of foreign markets? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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