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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

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The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

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Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

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Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

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The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

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Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

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It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

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It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

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One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: August 5th, 1876

Died: August 14th, 1958

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