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Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy. — Pell James

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. — Kato Lomb

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it. — Kato Lomb

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. — Kato Lomb

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — Kato Lomb

[S]tudy has never been a burden for me but always an inexhaustible source of joy. — Kato Lomb

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man — Saint Augustine

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking. — Wislawa Szymborska

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson — Lynda Barry

Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop. — Kato Lomb

Knowledge - like a nail - is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it. — Kato Lomb

A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe. — Kato Lomb

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully. — Pat Brown

[B]ooks, which can be consulted at any time, questioned again and again, and read into scraps, cannot be rivaled as a language-learning tool. — Kato Lomb

... I never looked for or found national differences in the various places of the world, only common features - eternal human nature. — Kato Lomb

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop. — Kato Lomb

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option. — Dalai Lama

There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas. — Kato Lomb

That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in. — Toby Barlow

My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on. — Kato Lomb

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. — Kato Lomb

[T]he time spent on language learning is lost unless it reaches a certain - daily and weekly - concentration. — Kato Lomb

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person. — Kato Lomb

That was his phrase - "the high ramparts of my defensiveness"- and I remembered it in case I ever decide to build and then describe my own ramparts. — Brock Clarke

At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust. — Kato Lomb

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina. — Kato Lomb

[R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine. — Kato Lomb