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Rene Descartes

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

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    we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present
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    be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their own country.

    Indeed the case

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    . It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own,
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    hope it will prove useful to some without being hurtful to any, and that my openness will find some favor with all.
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    it is but a little copper and glass, perhaps, that I take for gold and diamonds
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