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Travel Quotes by Henry Adams
- Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
- The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
- The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
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