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See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

—Robert Burton, c. 1620

In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

—Robert Runcie, 1988

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

—Saint Augustine, c. 390

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

—John Ruskin, 1856

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794
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