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bitethelime13 added The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

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bitethelime13 added A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.

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bitethelime13 added Experience, travel - these are education in themselves. Euripides

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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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The fool wanders, a wise man travels. Thomas Fuller

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bitethelime13 added Travel like ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind. -Rick Steves

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see. G. K. Chesterton

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bitethelime13 added I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where i'm going is what inspires me to travel it. Rosalia de Castro 1837-1885

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley

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bitethelime13 added Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.paul Therouxpaul theroux Paul Theroux

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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse Thomas Fuller

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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 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. G. K. Chesterton

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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Oliver Goldsmith

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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli - t

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Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

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bitethelime13 added A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett

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I have been a stranger in a strange land.

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I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee. William Wordsworth

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach

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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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bitethelime13 added Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.

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The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

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bitethelime13 added I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. Caskie Stinnett

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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. Søren Kierkegaard

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. Oscar Wilde

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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. James Thurber

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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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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. Mark Twain

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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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The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all. Daniel J. Boorstin

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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable. John Steinbeck

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Journeys end in lovers meeting. William Shakespeare

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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.

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The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.

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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. Edward Dahlberg

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability. George Bernard Shaw

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The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. Fred Allen

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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures. Susan Sontag

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Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

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Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel --movement through space --provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions --perhaps one of the secret terrors --of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did. Daniel J. Boorstin

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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. Henry David Thoreau

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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better. Henry David Thoreau

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The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack. George Ade

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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. Lawrence

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. Robert Louis Stevenson

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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. Samuel Johnson