No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby so helpless and so ridiculous. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby so helpless and so ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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