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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth."

"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."

"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."

"Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly."

"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."

"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."

"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."

"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
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