The person addressed by the printer was absolutely unexceptional, as insignificant and vacant as it is possible to be, one of those men that seem to exist in the plural, so utterly do they belong to the collective and the indivisible. His face, turned out by the shovelful, belonged to that numberless category, that no breeding can ever refine, and about whom everything is false, even the grossness...
A Dentist terribly punished - Léon Bloy
Something more than just learning a new language. Not so simple as that. Learning a new language implies having already learnt the first one. Learning a new language isn't just about the words. There is the context, the history, culture, and sense. There is the need to read and read and read. To observe, feel, and breathe. Now that's learning
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