We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different…

Mark Twain
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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can show off and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. ✨ Mark Twain (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated), p.4311, Delphi Classics
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