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- Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
- Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
- Ellis Peters
- Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
- Miriam Beard
- It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
- Mary Pettibone Poole
- We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
- Etty Hillesum
- The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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