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It is not the ignorance of a child, but the dementia of an old man, who had great [yes!] culture.

— Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange

"Non est ignorantia infantis, sed est dementia senis, qui magnum[sic!] culturam habuit.

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De sanctificatione Sacerdotum, I. 4, Rome, 1 July 1945.

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