Rudyard Kipling Quotes

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

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• The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Understanding
  • Condition
  • Foreign Country