“It is generally felt that the educated man or woman should be able to read Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Lorca in the original - with, anyway, the crutch of a translation.”

—  Anthony Burgess

Non-Fiction, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)

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