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

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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. 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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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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Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

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

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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 bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

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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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Journeys end in lovers meeting. William Shakespeare

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I have been a stranger in a strange land.

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

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

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

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

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

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck

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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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Siddharth Bhushan added Sometimes travelling doesn't make a person happier, but it still makes a person wiser.

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

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I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life. Oscar Wilde

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The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited. Arnold Bennett

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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. Walt Whitman

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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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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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