Languages
Prof. Mahmoud Hessaby was fluent in five living languages: Persian, French, English, German and Arabic. He was also familiar with Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Pahlavi, Avestan, Turkish and Italian, which he used for etymological studies.
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“Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.”
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