Famous quotes containing the words oriental and/or languages:
“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)
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