No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. (Thomas Jefferson)

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

Thomas Jefferson

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