Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
“One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.”
“Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.”