If you could time travel to any era, which era would it be, & why

There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)

“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”

~ Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland (1865)