What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. (G. K. Chesterton)

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

G. K. Chesterton

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