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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."

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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist
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"Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?"

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"

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Sinclair Lewis Novelist
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"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."

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Socrates Philosopher
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"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"

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Robert Johnson Musician
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"I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints."

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