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Travel and
society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and
a little moss is a good thing on a man.
-- John Burroughs
1837-1921, American
Naturalist, Author
Travelers are
like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
-- Sir Richard Burton
1821-1890, Explorer, Born in
Torquay
I am so
convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of
reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at
home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I
think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men
abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left
us.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
I swims in the
Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule,
and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites
from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be
expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
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Traveling, you
realize that differences are lost: each city takes to
resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order,
distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
-- Italo Calvino
1923-1985, Cuban Writer,
Essayist, Journalist
The traveler
sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
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.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
The travel
writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of
the imagination.
-- Alexander Cockburn
1941-, Anglo-Irish Journalist
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