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"Modes,
customs, usages, all that you can set down to the score
of the national, the social, or the conventional, are
precisely as different from yours as the east is
different from the west. They sit when you stand; they
lie when you sit; they do to the head what you do to the
feet; they use fire when you use water; you shave the
beard, they shave the head; you move the hat, they touch
the breast; you use the lips in salutation, they touch
the forehead and the cheek; your house looks outwards,
their house looks inwards; you go out to take a walk,
they go up to enjoy the fresh air; you drain your land,
they sigh for water; you bring your daughters out, they
keep their wives and daughters in; your ladies go
barefaced through the streets, their ladies are always
covered."
The Jordan and the Rhine, by the Rev. W. Graham, p. 4
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