“[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.”

—  George Gordon Byron

"To Mr. Moore", From the Letters of Lord Byron, 5 December 1816, p. 12.
Lord Byron's Armenian Exercises and Poetry (1870)

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