What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence … - Peter Brodie

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The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

Peter Brodie

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

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What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

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One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day. "

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There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

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The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

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