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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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