No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth … - Patrick Rothfuss

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It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

Patrick Rothfuss

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

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