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Take care never to speak what you have not weighed and pondered beforehand; nor interject your own words on the spur of the moment and in the midst of another’s; for you must listen and converse in turn, with set times for speech and for silence.

— Clement of Alexandria

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The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

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