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| The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
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| There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage | | Mark Twain | |
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| Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly | | Richard Bach | |
| Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. | | John Burroughs | |
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| Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. | | Mark Twain | |
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| Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness. | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. | | Rene Descartes | |
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| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. | | Robert Frost | |
| Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad | | Jonathan Swift | |