It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. β¨ By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway. Book edited by William White, 1967.
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