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Wandering monks lived entirely by mooching off others

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These wandering ascetics realized that working for a living was unnecessary when you could just intensely exploit religious hospitality. They spent their lives endlessly traveling between monasteries, surviving solely as professional freeloaders.

Wandering monks lived entirely by mooching off others
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