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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

John Dryden
Beautiful, Language, Sometimes
John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

John Dryden
Language, Well Said, Wit
'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

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