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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it ones self to be acquainted with it. – Lord Chesterfield

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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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Books
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Lord Chesterfield
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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Shame
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Lord Chesterfield
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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Learning
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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins. – Daryl Hall

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Travel

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. – Ramakrishna

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Travel

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers its a kind of gift that the players really appreciate. – Guy Lafleur

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Travel

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. – Bernard Cornwell

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Travel

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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