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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
-Samuel Johnson
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As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
-Samuel Johnson
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The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
-Samuel Johnson
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Doorman -- a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
-Dorothy Kilgallen
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
-Rudyard Kipling
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If you look like your passport picture you're too ill to travel.
-Will Kommen
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The map is not the territory.
-Alfred Korzybski
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A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.
-Milan Kundera
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Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
-Charles Kuralt
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Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
-Lao-Tzu
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
-Max Lerner
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
-Sinclair Lewis, on sightseeing
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Does this boat go to Europe, France?
-Anita Loos
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
-Alice Meynell
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
-Henry Miller
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We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
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A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.
-Jan Myrdal
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Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.
-Regina Nadelson
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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
-Margaret Oliphant
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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
-John Enoch Powell
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
-J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley
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Books about Travel
