Standard Latin

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“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)