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Languages Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations
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- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare
- We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it… — C. F. W. Walther
- An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be… — Seth Grahame-Smith
- I see A Real Man as people who understand love and its many languages and therefore they treat each relationship in which… — Pacifiersucker
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker
- At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale
- You who speak languages, you are such liars. — Orson Scott Card