Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-August 1

SOME people resemble the hedgehog. They seem all calmness and meekness as long as they remain untouched. But no sooner does a superior or friend touch them, by an obser­vation on something they have done imper­fectly, than they forthwith become all prickles.
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927