“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
Plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 58
Letters
“When people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.”
p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)
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