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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, p.218
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, p.218

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