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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.


John Ruskin

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MICHAEL PALIN Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
BEN HARPER It was a great start for us. But the concerns are the travelling and being away from home.
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GARY F EVANS... The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!
SYLVESTER MCCOY We must ensure that people are not deterred from travelling without good reason.
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RAYMOND M. SMULLYAN It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
KENNETH KOCH Travelling expands the mind rarely.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Travelling expands the mind rarely
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Unprofitably travelling toward the grave.
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WAYNE CHIRISA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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JOHN RUSKIN Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of ...
JOHN RUSKIN Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
JOHN RUSKIN Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so...
JOHN RUSKIN In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
JOHN RUSKIN There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...
JOHN RUSKIN You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...
JOHN RUSKIN