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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.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Life was generous: it gave a man a thousand things to be pissed off about.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea

“traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.”
― Ibn Batuta

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
― Ursula K. LeGuin