When i read this I thought..."Yes. This is what I've been trying to explain but didn't have the words." And to think...he said this far before the convenience of airplanes...
“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, 1857
That couldn't be more true.
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