Samuel Johnson
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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, p.62

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