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> [A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/a-traveller-must-buy-his-own-experience-and-success-or-failure/)

[Isabella Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabella-bird/)

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## More by Isabella Bird

> [If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/if-japanese-tea-stands-it-acquires-a-coarse-bitterness-and-an/)

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> [The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/the-situation-of-leh-is-a-grand-one-the-great-kailas-range-with-its/)

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> [I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/i-was-heartily-sorry-to-leave-leh-with-its-dazzling-skies-and/)

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> [Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/everybody-seized-upon-a-bit-of-the-beast-the-sultan-claimed-the-liver/)

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> [The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/the-desert-sweeps-up-to-the-walls-of-baghdad-but-it-is-a-misnomer-to/)

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> [Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/water-is-a-beverage-which-i-never-enjoyed-in-purity-and-perfection/)

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> [An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/an-american-store-is-generally-a-very-extensive-apartment-handsomely/)

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> [The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/the-breadfruit-is-a-superb-tree-about-60-feet-high-with-deep-green/)

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> [Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/poverty-brings-one-blessing-in-turkey-the-poor-man-is-of-necessity-a/)

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> [To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/to-a-person-sitting-quietly-at-home-rocky-mountain-traveling-like/)

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> [Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/malacca-is-such-a-rest-after-the-crowds-of-japan-and-the-noisy-hurry/)

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> [The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/the-shat-el-arab-is-a-noble-river-or-estuary-from-both-its-persian/)

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> [I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/i-suppose-that-few-people-ever-forget-the-first-sight-of-a-palm-tree/)

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> [I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/i-went-to-the-states-with-that-amount-of-prejudice-which-seems-the/)

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> [Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabella-bird/malacca-fascinates-me-more-and-more-daily-there-is-among-other-things/)

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