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A Journey and a Book are Perfect Companions

Dennis G. Jerz / 6 Jul 2002

“When Socrates was asked where he came from, he did not say, ‘From Athens’, but ‘From the world’, an attitude that our own reading and travels may encourage.” Alain de Botton

—A Journey and a Book are Perfect Companions  (Times Online)

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