"Furthermore, what profit was it to me that……" — Saint Augustine

Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of… - Saint Augustine
"Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them."

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