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    We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

    - T. S. Eliot

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    Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

    - Confucius

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    The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

    - Saint Augustine

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    Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

    - Marcel Proust

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    A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

    - George A. Moore

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    Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

    - Matsuo Basho

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    A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

    - Lao Tzu

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    All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

    - Martin Buber

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    To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

    - Aldous Huxley

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    To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

    - Danny Kaye

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    Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

    - Benjamin Disraeli

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    If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

    - Alphonse de Lamartine

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    It is better to travel well than to arrive.

    - Buddha

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    The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

    - Gilbert K. Chesterton

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    Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

    - Frank Borman

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    If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

    - Cesare Pavese

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    He travels the fastest who travels alone.

    - Rudyard Kipling

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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.

    - John Steinbeck

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    We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

    - Anais Nin

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    If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

    - Dan Rather

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    Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

    - Giotto di Bondone

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    Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

    - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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    The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

    - Charles Kuralt

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    I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

    - Oscar Wilde

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    Travelling expands the mind rarely.

    - Hans Christian Andersen

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    Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

    - Henny Youngman

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    Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

    - W. C. Fields

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    No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

    - Lin Yutang

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    Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

    - Ernest Hemingway

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    Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

    - Maya Angelou

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    Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

    - Paul Theroux

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    What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

    - George Carlin

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    Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

    - Susan Sontag

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    I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

    - Christopher Hitchens

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    Paris is always a good idea.

    - Audrey Hepburn

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    The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

    - Wilbur Wright

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    Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

    - Ramakrishna

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    Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

    - Mary Ritter Beard

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    Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

    - Italo Calvino

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    The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

    - Samuel Johnson

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    I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

    - Fred Allen

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    You get educated by traveling.

    - Solange Knowles

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    Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

    - George Eliot

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    Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

    - Lawrence Durrell

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    One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

    - Thomas Jefferson

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    Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

    - Al Gore

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    You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

    - William Hazlitt

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    Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

    - Nikos Kazantzakis

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    Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

    - William Blake

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    The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

    - Daniel J. Boorstin

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    I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

    - Laurel Clark

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    Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

    - Paul Theroux

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    Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

    - Frances Burney

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    How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

    - R. Buckminster Fuller

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    Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

    - Francis Bacon

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    Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

    - Satchel Paige

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    I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

    - Michael Palin

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    Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

    - Aristophanes

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    Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

    - Truman Capote

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    We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson

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    Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

    - Mason Cooley

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    When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

    - Clifton Fadiman

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    In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

    - Robert Benchley

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    When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

    - Phil Collins

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    To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

    - John Muir

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    The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

    - Edmund Burke

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    We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

    - Mignon McLaughlin

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    When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

    - Liberty Hyde Bailey

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    When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

    - Helen Hayes

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    A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

    - Lin Yutang

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    I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson

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    Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

    - John Steinbeck

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    Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

    - Ella Maillart

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    The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

    - Rudyard Kipling

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    London is a roost for every bird.

    - Benjamin Disraeli

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    I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

    - Hilaire Belloc

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    Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

    - George Eliot

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    I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

    - George Bernard Shaw

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    A wise traveler never despises his own country.

    - William Hazlitt

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    If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

    - Raymond Floyd

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    In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

    - Robin Leach

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    People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

    - Martin Yan

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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.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson

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    Two great talkers will not travel far together.

    - George Borrow

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    One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

    - Ella Maillart

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    Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

    - Henry Adams

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    In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

    - Ivanka Trump

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    Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

    - Sophie Swetchine

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    A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

    - Oliver Goldsmith

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    On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

    - Lisa Snowdon

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    There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

    - Patrick MacGill

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    When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

    - David Blunkett

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    My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

    - Eric Roberts

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    You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

    - Paul Theroux

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    The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

    - George Ade

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    I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

    - Wallis Simpson

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    Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

    - Jan Morris

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    The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

    - Glenn Tipton

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    I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

    - James Cameron

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