hether native or foreign. Indeed, foreign language learning always entails modifications of the learner's personality (Ingram, 1979).
Silence. "Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise" (Hymen [1730], l.118). "Sprechen ist Silbern, Schweigen ist Golden" ("Speak is silver, Silence is gold") say the Swiss. "Secret guilt by silence is betrayed" (The Hind and the Panther, 1687). "In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity" (Meister Eckhart, 1260-1327). "The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have
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