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"No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own."
"Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure."
"When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life."
"The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it."
"Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life."
"I don't know anything anymore"
"Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy."
"Heaven's my destination."
"The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions."
"Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships."
"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."
"The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing."
"Once more on my adventure brave and new."
"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
"When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."
"Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle"
"My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore."
"If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity."
"People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad."
"I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust."
