philosopher Quotes
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We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and keep free and open communication with what is going on in the minds of other nations, if we really want to be a nation again.
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Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
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Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country.
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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.
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The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology.
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Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five. - C. S. Lewis
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.