Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. — Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
— Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835–1910) · The Innocents Abroad, 1869
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