Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it. - Garrison Keillor

... you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

All the best of you is in the old tongue, but when you speak your best in America you become a yokel, a dumb Norskie, and when you speak English, an idiot.