English Proficiency

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or proficiency:

    Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.
    Collected in John Ray, English Proverbs. English proverb (1670)

    The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)