Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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