A Boat Against the Current

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Quote of the Day (Robert Louis Stevenson, on Why ‘There Are No Foreign Lands’)

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” —Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters (1883)

This famous portrait of the writer is by John Singer Sargent.

MikeT at 6:28 PM

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