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“Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.”

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Walt Whitman

American poet, considered one of the pioneers of American poetry. His work, 'Leaves of Grass,' has had a profound impact on American poetry. more

“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.”

Actors Modern Stage Travel Expectations Raised Scripts Guides Expected Lists Tourists Tourism Up To Date

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!”

World Land Travel Rounds Dirty Coca Cola Gondolas

Author:Bob Dylan

“As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.”

Looks Home Would Be Trouble Worst Travel Jokes Museums Tourism

Book:Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”

People Age Middle Travel Middle Ages Tourists Tourism

Author:Robert Runcie

“...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.”

People Men Kind Humor Travel Instinct Contact Deep Thought

Book:Mark Twain at your fingertips

Source: Mark Twain at your fingertips

“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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Book:The Innocents Abroad

Source: The Innocents Abroad

“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.”

Land Travel Misery Unhappiness Bigotry Cheerful Careless Voyages

Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)

“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.”

Men World Mean Made Self Born Saws Comfort Travel Satisfaction Stuck Bigotry Almighty Stubborn Conceited Opinionated Narrow-minded Narrow Minds Vandals Mean Man

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“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.”

Want Country Heaven Hell Travel Curiosity Charm Vague Travel Writing Heaven And Hell Foreign Countries Heaven Hell

Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)

“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.”

Ifs Knows Way Real Found House Sides Born Travel Authority Grateful Boss Providence Qualified I Am Grateful

Book:Mark Twain Speaking

Source: Mark Twain Speaking

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