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8507. TRAVEL, Philanthropy and.—[continued].

I am never satiated with rambling through the fields and farms [in
France], examining the culture and cultivators,
with a degree of curiosity which makes some
take me to be a fool, and others to be much
wiser than I am.—
To Marquis de Lafayette. Washington ed. ii, 135.
(Ne. 1787)