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Every nation ... have their refinements and grossiertes.... There is a balance ... of good and bad every where; and nothing but the knowing it is so can emancipate one half of the world from the prepossessions which it holds against the other—that [was] the advantage of travel ... it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration ... taught us mutual love. - Laurence Sterne
Attribution: Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1768), ch. “The Rose. Paris.” Ed. Gardner D. Stout, Jr., University of California Press (1967).

Categories: Author, Clergyman, Prejudice, Tolerance, Traveling And Travelers

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