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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, August 17, 1844, to Isaac Hecker, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 408, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
(Paul Theroux (b. 1941), U.S. novelist, travel writer. quoted in Observer (London, Oct. 7, 1979).)
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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.
(Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Travels with a Donkey, "Cheylard and Luc," (1879).)
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A man of travel, that hath seen the world.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Armado, in Love's Labor's Lost, act 5, sc. 1, l. 107-8.
Making the claim for himself.)
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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees.
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. Ulysses (l. 6-7). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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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 (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Art," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 324, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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I should like to oblige you, but with people like us, we must be able to travel faster than our clients.
(Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter. Captain Feeney (Arthur O'Sullivan), Barry Lyndon, after robbing Redmond Barry, who asked if he could at least keep his horse (1975).)
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Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.
(George Lucas (b. 1944), U.S. director, screenwriter. C3PO (Anthony Daniels), Star Wars, as Han Solo's ship, The Millennium Falcon, takes off (1977).)
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He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 324, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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