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Quote by Charles Darwin
English (Source)
I recommend to all nature divers, (...) to seize the opportunity and go on a land trip or, if it is not possible otherwise, a long sea trip. You can be sure that the difficulties or dangers that await you are never as serious as you imagine. From a moral point of view, his profit will be that the trip will teach him a certain good-natured patience, free him from selfishness, get used to independent action and learn to draw the best lesson for himself from everything that happens. In a word: he acquires the characteristic features of most sailors. Of course, traveling may make him distrustful; but at the same time, he realizes how many good-hearted people there are, with whom he has never had anything to do with before and perhaps never will again, and who nevertheless readily rush to his aid.