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The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
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every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
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Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
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