and many of our people need it solely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner
of the earth all one's lifetime."
- Mark Twain
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I first came across this passage years ago while reading Mark Twain's travel chronicle, The Innocents Abroad. Frankly (and as they probably would to most 14 year-olds), the words meant zilch to me at the time - so much so, in fact, that they came across as little more than a mouthful of masterfully-penciled literary jargon.