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These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

Approximate author period: c. 1896 AD · industrial

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Hilaire Belloc
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Approximate author period: c. 1896 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Hilaire Belloc: documented activity in 1896. Wikidata Q333106, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333106 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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