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“I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Conduct of Life. Books.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7343213b67144a11893b97a98685c5860459448b9651f916d8cb1f6b71e439c5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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