“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) American writer
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
The Brook Kerith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12821/12821-h/12821-h.htm, ch. 11 (1916).
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