 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 cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.  Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress - Pagina 141door James R. Babb - 2002 - 224 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 472 pagina’s
...would be well if such an excursion could be gotten up every year and the system regularly inaugurated. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,...one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. The excursion is ended, and has passed to its place among the things that were. But its varied scenes... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1984 - 1078 pagina’s
...would be well if such an excursion could be gotten up every year and the system regularly inaugurated. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness,...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. The Excursion... | |
 | United States. President (1989-1993 : Bush) - 1990 - 994 pagina’s
...world to America: you open the cultures of the world to our people as well. Mark Twain said that the "broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things...one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." Thomas Jefferson, our magnificent education President, enhanced such a broad, wholesome, and charitable... | |
 | Mark Twain, Brian Collins - 1996 - 196 pagina’s
...words try to describe. Hank Morgan, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch. 28 (1889). Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,...one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. The Innocents Abroad, vol. 2, "Conclusion," p. 407. Gabriel Wells (1923). Written in 1869. We should... | |
 | Miriam E. David - 1998 - 228 pagina’s
...prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness — all foes to real understanding. Likewise tolerance of broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in our little corner of the world all one's life.' Not surprisingly then, travel has played an important... | |
 | Hilton Obenzinger - 1999 - 342 pagina’s
...Italians or Jews, according to a broader "racial" taxonomy not fully dependent on the American color line. "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,...many of our people need it sorely on these accounts," Twain offers in the travel book genre's more "serious," didactic register. "Broad, wholesome, charitable... | |
 | Sandra Slavin - 2003 - 220 pagina’s
...enough at it, yon can grind even an iron rod dottm to a ncciile. — Chinese Proverb On the Road Again: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it solely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by... | |
 | Suzan Burton, Peter Steane - 2004 - 268 pagina’s
...2 An international perspective on postgraduate research degree studies T0NY ADAMS AND PETER BURGESS Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accouats. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in... | |
 | Patricia Pearson - 2005 - 101 pagina’s
...encouraged others to as well. We cannot understand those we do not know. Or, as Twain rather bluntly stated, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,...one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Another American, Benjamin Franklin, observed of his experiences in France: "A man always has two homes,... | |
 | Jeanie Seward-Magee - 2006 - 206 pagina’s
...the creators of joy and magic, sorrow and peace in our lives. I truly believe that being mindfully Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness...many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. -MARK TWAIN 14 A MINDFUL WAY WEEK ONE grateful is a way of allowing our life to flow, rather than letting... | |
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