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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."

[Quoted in
Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience]
— George Bernard Shaw
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Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the opening of one’s eyes is far better than what any mainstream news outlet could ever tell you.
— M.B. Dallocchio
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I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent
— Mark Twain
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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
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
— Mark Twain
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