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It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as…
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though…
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The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…
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Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel…
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They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
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The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
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Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
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The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of…
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
— Charlotte Bronte
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a…
— Ben Jonson
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
— George Mikes
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
— Robert Graves
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Revile those who flatter you.
— Rumi
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They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They…
— Solomon Northup
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