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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description o

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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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. – Lord Chesterfield

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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own Goosebumps attraction at Disney World Ive been on TV and had three TV series. – R. L. Stine

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The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience. – Michael Palin

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All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel… and thats what Ive been doing all my life. – Count Basie

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