Samuel Johnson Quotes About Travel
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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.
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.
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When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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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.
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Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
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