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The Renaissance2 quotes
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him. — Francis Bacon · 1625Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. — Francis Bacon · 1625Age of Enlightenment1 quote
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. — Samuel Johnson · 1773