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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. - Honore de Balzac I dressed and went for a walk--determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer. - Raymond Carver, This Morning The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,--hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys. - Charles Dickens If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest. - John Dryden Walking is also an ambulation of mind. - Gretel Ehrlich Walking is man's best medicine. - Hippocrates of Iphicrates All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. - Terry Pratchett Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. - Sir Leslie Stephen The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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