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1840–1899 Hungary

Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (14 October 1840 – 22 March 1899), also known as Dr. Leitner, was a British orientalist.

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If the man laughs, change the Order.

Many disasters can be traced to our linguistic shortcomings. Millions of money and multitudes of men have been sacrificed in order to save the prestige of a mistake in translation committed "by authority."

A good deal of our misconception with regard to the difficulty of the inquiry lies in ourselves that ideas of multitude connected with the peculiar customs of the race that have yet to be ascertained, are at the bottom of the inability of that race to follow our numeration.

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