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Originally Written Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
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