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Languages Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
- Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
- He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
- Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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