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Age of Enlightenment1 quote
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. — Samuel Johnson · 1773Ancient World1 quote
People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there? — Zhuang Zhou · 220 BCClassical antiquity1 quote
Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language; yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere. — Tertullian · 198Old Testament Era1 quote
Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. — Genesis 11:9 · 1405 BC