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Teaching dead languages wastes time now that their useful books are translated
Drawn from what Thomas Paine said
What Thomas Paine actually said
- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
As there is now nothing new to be learned from the dead languages, all the useful books being already translated, the languages are become useless, and the time expended in teaching and in learning them is wasted.
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↗The Age of Reason, Parts I and II (1794-1795)gutenberg.org
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