Reading of all good books is like a conversation with the most qualified people in past centuries, who were their authors, and even a premeditated conversation, in which they reveal only their best thoughts...Almost the same thing as talking to men of other centuries is traveling. It’s good to know something of the habits of different peoples, so that our judge more fairly and not think that everything that is different from our customs is ridiculous and contrary to reason, make it sound like nothing seen.
However, when we spend too much time traveling, just making us strangers in our own land, and when we are too curious of what they were in past centuries, we are generally very ignorant of what takes place in the present.
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