I have not told half of what I saw.
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- Marco Polo
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- On his death-bed, when urged to retract "some of the seemingly incredible statements he made in his book", as quoted in The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian (London: J. M. Dent, 1926), p. xxiv. Quote in Italian from Imago mundi seu Chron
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