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Ill-timed conversation is like music in mourning, but stripes and correction are wisdom in every season.
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Verse 6. Mourning. Saint Jerome (ep. ad Julian) quoting this sentence, calls it “divine Scripture.” Proverbs 25:20.—Of time. Or “stripes and instruction well-timed, are wisdom.” Bible.—Only the wise know how to correct with advantage.
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