Native English Speakers

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“The air of one’s native country is the most healthy air.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
—18th-century English proverb.

“What’s this, Aurora Leigh,
You write so of the poets and not laugh?
Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark,
Exaggerators of the sun and moon,
And soothsayers in a tea-cup? I write so
Of the only truth-tellers, now left to God,—
The only speakers of essential truth,
Opposed to relative, comparative,
And temporal truths;...
The only teachers who instruct mankind,
From just a shadow on a charnel-wall.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)