Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign cou…

Mark Twain
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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. ✨ Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891), p.574, Univ of California Press
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