Hello fellow PanamaForum.com friends!

This is the seventh issue of the PanamaForum Newsletter.

Today I’ll be sharing some great travel quotes with you.

Here goes:

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
- Seneca

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
- Mark Twain

“Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves”.
- Euripides

“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”.
- Dave Barry (American Writer and Humorist)

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
- Saint Augustine

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
- Maya Angelou (American Poet)

Enjoy Panama and have fun!

Let’s get to the Panama News and Latest Threads from PanamaForum.com.

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