In Cologne, too, they pitied [St. Thomas Aquinas], this taciturn pupil.
So much so that one day when Master Albert was explaining and commenting on a particularly difficult text, a student offered " from pity " to repeat the lesson to Thomas.
Thomas let him do it. But when the would-be teacher found himself before a very great difficulty, Brother Thomas calmly took up the explanation and even added some very beautiful things that Albert had not said. The student was thunderstruck, but Brother Thomas asked him to say nothing about the matter. He said he would not, but he did not keep his promise. So, at the Studium, or School of Cologne, they talked about nothing else but Brother Thomas.
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