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Excerpt from Select Essays of Sainte-Beuve: Chiefly Bearing on English Literature
Still, it must be admitted that those who deemed the attempt worth making have the author's own judge ment on their side. It is probably more universally true in France than in England that, as he says, works written in a foreign language are only really read when they have been translated: most of us can read French, though few of us can speak it. But even of the most ?uent readers it can hardly be doubted that the vast majority will read yet more ?uently and with less waste of power by friction, in their own language, especially when the object is rather to learn what a writer has to say, than how he says it.
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