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Chapter XXVI. Of poverty in dwellings

56. He taught his brethren to make poor habitations, of wood, not of stone, and to build them as small houses on a humble plan. And often when talking of poverty he would urge on the brethren that Gospel saying: "The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests: but the Son of God had not where to lay His head".

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