Monday, May 16, 2022
No Tittering
G.G. Coulton, Ten Medieval Studies With Four Appendices (1930; rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 45:
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"Let not novices be easily moved to laughter," writes Bernard [of Besse], "...tittering in general is a great disgrace to the gravity of a Religious. It is utterly despicable for a man of Religion to titter like a boy. No man of Religion should utter laughter with undisciplined lips, but show with a glad face the gladness of his heart."Related posts:
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