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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

— G. K. Chesterton Tremendous Trifles (1909)

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

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