"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either."

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Source : "The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus" (1786)

William Jones

#Latin Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Greek Quotes

“Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.”
“True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.”
“Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.”
“True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.”
“The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.”
“I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, ... If I can play every day, the numbers will come.”
“You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceÃ¦, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.”
“I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.”

Source : John Evelyn (1997). “John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn”, Prospect Books (UK)

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