Sep 28, 2013
Yet nevertheless, the rudeness of common and mother tongues is no bar for wise speaking. For in the rudest country, and most barbarous mother language, many be found can speak very wisely; but in the Greek and Latin tongue, the only two learned tongues, which be kept, not in common talk, but in private books, we find always wisdom and eloquence, good matter and good utterance never or seldom asunder.
-Ascham, The Scholemaster