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Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage. — Joachim du Bellay · 1558Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. — Margaret Mead · 1928Some minds improve by travel, others, rather Resemble copper wire, or brass, Which gets the narrower by going farther! — Thomas Hood · 1845
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Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage. — Joachim du Bellay · 1558Some minds improve by travel, others, rather Resemble copper wire, or brass, Which gets the narrower by going farther! — Thomas Hood · 1845
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Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869
Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather Resemble copper wire, or brass, Which gets the narrower by going farther! — Thomas Hood · 1845
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me anymore, at least, I'm not the same me I was. — Ernesto Guevara de la Serna · 2004