Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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