"How good is a word in its proper time."

S.Y. #Agnon, "The Tale of the Scribe"

(I am thinking this may be a reference to Proverbs 15:23? From the 1917 JPS Tanakh:

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth;
And a word in due season, how good is it!)

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