"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

Travel, Idea, Company, Writer

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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

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"A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Travel, Wrong, Time, Information

"I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her."

Jim Dale, British Musician

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"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them."

Agnes Repplier, American Writer

Travel, May, Tourists

"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be."

Barney Oliver, American Scientist

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"I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"Every travel is blessed adventure."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Travel, Blessed, Adventure, Sacred

"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

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"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."

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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

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"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

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"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."

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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

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"The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions."

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"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."

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"Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding."

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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."

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