Thought of the day

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

2 Responses

  1. Why didn’t Mark Twain run as president. I guess he was too smart.

  2. I have found that travel, particularly to the more desparate parts of the third world, generally has the effect of causing one to greatly appreciate what one has in the U.S.

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