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With travel, our minds becom more curious, our hearts more powerful, and ouor spirits more joyous. And once the mind is stretched like that, it can never return to its original state.

What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked.

"The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”


― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page"