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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."

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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.

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Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

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It was such ecstacy to dream, and dream - till you got a bite.A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpio...more

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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...more

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was...more

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Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of...more

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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We w...more

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable vi...more

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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.