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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
         

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.


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