"I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to."
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"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
"The fastest way to travel is to be there already."
"Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America."
"Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life"
"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."
"To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel."
"If you're going to America, bring your own food."
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
"When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise."
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad."
"To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both."
"Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama."
"Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for."
"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
"In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent."
"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."