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To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Travel is fatal to prejudice. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. There are two things necessary for a traveler to bring him to the end of his journey--a knowledge of his way, a perseverance in his walk. If he walk in a wrong way, the faster he goes the farther he is from home; if he sit still in the right way, he may know his home, but never come to it: discreet stays make speedy journeys. I will first then know my way, ere I begin my walk; the knowledge of my way is a good part of my journey. - Arthur Warwick Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling. - Isaac Watts The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel. - Nathaniel Parker Willis Long traveled in the ways of men. - Edward Young Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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