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I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.

—Grace Moore, 1944

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

—Samuel Johnson, 1777

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843

There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

—Mark Twain, 1894
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