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This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.

— Albertus Magnus to Albertus Magnus in: Anne Jackson Fremantle (1962)

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Albertus Magnus, in response to other of his students calling Thomas Aquinas a "dumb ox" because of his quietude.

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