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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Adventure is worthwhile in itself. - Amelia Earhart One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. - William Feather Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry. - Thomas Gray, Ode to a Distant Prospect of Eton College Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. - David Grayson (pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker) * * * * * and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign words. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 439) He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule. [Fr., Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.-- Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure--perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.] - Francois Rabelais, Gargantua (bk. I, ch. 33) A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. - Laurence Sterne Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. - Irving Wallace Without adventure civilization is in full decay. - Alfred North Whitehead
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