Mark Twain Quotes About Travel
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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.
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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.
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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.
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It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.
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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.
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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
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I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.
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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
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