Thomas Hood's Quote - Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire

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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. – Thomas Hood

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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. – Thomas Hood

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Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. – Thomas Hood

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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? – Thomas Hood

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Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and its not just having a daughter, its wanting to have your own life and be yourself. – Helen Hunt

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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel. – Patrick Troughton

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After a lifetime of world travel Ive been fascinated that those in the third world dont have the same perception of reality that we do. – Jim Harrison

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Im such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that thats a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isnt that interested in moving from place to place. – Bell Hooks

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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? Im constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that Ive been on. – Madonna Ciccone

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My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents… They treated us like adults. – Henry Louis Gates

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. – Martin Luther

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