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is a doorway into a culture. A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

is a window into one's own language. He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is a greater delight to speak a bit of than a lot of, just as pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well... pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche

is a thing in which humor is the first of the gifts to perish.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

is an easy enough thing to speak, but sometimes it is difficult making the idiot natives understand their own language.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain

is the best and simplest opportunity of getting our ideas disentangled from the swaddling clothes of their native syntax.

' if we do not know another language, we have missed the best and simplest opportunity of getting our ideas disentangled from the swaddling clothes of their native syntax.

is thing which to not understand in another person is also to be incapable of understand that person's silence.

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

 modern man is educated to understand and yet he misunderstands foreigners.

FOREIGNER Half the trouble with modern man is that be is educated to FOREIGNER 323 FORGET understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners

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