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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
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
In going abroad we change the climate and not our dispositions
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends
Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,
To traverse climes beyond the western main;
Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,
And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.
To traverse climes beyond the western main;
Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,
And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.
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