Samuel Johnson Quote

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.


The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. In Fourteen Volumes (ed. 1788)


To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The...

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The...

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The...

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The...