High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside: Picked Up in the French Provinces (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I am answered, perhaps, that time is not given to all men in the same profuseness that where I have a year to spare, another may have but a month. Then, I reply, spend your month with profit. Measure at the end of it the minds you have analysed, not the league. You have driven over; and if you have but sauntered through one district of a foreign nation, in communion With the inhabitants, you are better informed than he who has galloped from Calais to Paris, and thence to Florence, Rome, and Naples, But a crusty opponent might say that this is all labor in vain, tell me that most men travel merely to talk of it, or that Voyager at an triste plaisir, i cite the Scotch proverb, Sen' a fool to France, and he'll come back a fool, -quote, gravely, if he will.

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