Famous quotes containing the word foreign:
“Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“We should meet each morning, as from foreign countries, and spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign countries.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
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