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Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

—Joseph Conrad, 1899

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

—Voltaire, 1764

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

—George Mikes, 1946

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926
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