Quotation by Samuel Johnson

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Tour to the Hebrides, September 18, 1773 (1785).
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