The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.