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 can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Mark Twain · The Innocents Abroad
Wisdom & life
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness…”
- Author
- Mark Twain
- Work
- The Innocents Abroad
- Year
- 1869
- Chapter / part
- Chapter LXI
- Length
- 43 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #3176
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Mark Twain died in 1910, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1869. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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