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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
-Sam Ewing
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There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
And those who love me best.
-Marianne Faithfull
opening lyrics from the song Ireland
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In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
-Frantz Fanon
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
-Janet Frame
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
-Thomas Fuller
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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
-Thomas Fuller
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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
-Johann von Goethe
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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
-Carlo Goldoni
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.
-Paul Goodman
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
-Nadine Gordimer
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Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.
-Sadi Gulistan
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I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
-William Hazlitt
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
-Ernest Hemingway
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They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
-Horace
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
-Aldous Huxley
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
-Aldous Huxley
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Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
-Chrissie Hynde
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
-Henry James
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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
-Thomas Jefferson
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He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.
-Samuel Johnson
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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
-Samuel Johnson
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
-Samuel Johnson
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Books about Travel
