"As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you."
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"Life is a daring adventure or nothing."
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"They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind."
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"You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself."
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"...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people."
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"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
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"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
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"The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'."
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"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."
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"Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that."
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"Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture."
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"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
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"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."
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"Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place."
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"Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay."
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"Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side."
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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
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"Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful."
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"A wise man travels to discover himself."
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"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother."
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