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Paul Engle Quotes:

Ocupation: Poet

Life: October 12, 1908 - March 22, 1991

Birthday: October 12

Death: March 22

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

- Paul Engle

source: Paul Engle (1996). “A lucky American childhood”, Univ of Iowa Pr

topic: Summer, Philosophy, Vacation, Summer Vacation, German Philosophy

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