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• I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.

  Susan M. Watkins

  Laughter, Journey, Thinking

  Susan M. Watkins (1984). “Conversations with Seth: The Story of Jane Roberts' ESP Class”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Trying, Around The World

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Paradise, Fool

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Home, Whole

  "The Essential Hazlitt".

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• Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

  Dave Barry

  Car, Trying, Administration

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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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

  Dog, Gambling, Air

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

  Thomas Nashe

  Dog, Tails, Ears

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• A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

  Lin Yutang

  Perfect, Doe, Literature

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Journey, Difficult Situations, People

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Old Habits, Giving

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

  Jim Harrison

  Inspirational, Lakes, Sea

  Jim Harrison (2007). “The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I just travel all the time.

  Ivan Lendl

  Schedules, Time Travel, Tournaments

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• I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.

  Jay Kay

  Moving, Might, Honey

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• Look at that wonderful moonlight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home.

  Wu Cheng'en

  Home, Long, Looks

  Wu Cheng'en (2014). “Journey to the West: The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures”, p.165, Tuttle Publishing

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• But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

  Noel Coward

  Home, People, Stay At Home

  Noel Coward (1973). “A Last Encore”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Mind, Grows

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.165

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• Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.

  Joe Harris

  Footsteps

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• Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

  Sinclair Lewis

  Thinking, Citizens, Want

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• Travel is a fools paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tourism, Paradise, Fool

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• Does this boat go to Europe, France?

  Anita Loos

  Europe, Tourism, Doe

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• Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Never Trust, Articles

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

  Edith Durham

  Journey, Riding, Peculiar

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• In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

  George Eliot

  Shapes, Fool, Pleasure

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

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• I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Country, World

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  Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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