"There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence."
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Rule of Saint Benedict (516 AD), as edited by Timothy Fry, O. S. B (1981), p. 15
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Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 543 or 547) was the founder of the Benedictine Order and hence of mediaeval monasticism.
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