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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. – Lord Chesterfield

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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. – Lord Chesterfield

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It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville

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I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. – Tim Cahill

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Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union. – Olga Korbut

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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. – Al Boliska

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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. – Morris Bender

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Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone elses technique. I like mine. – Frankie Muniz

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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. – Percy Wynham Lewis

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. – Bernard De Voto

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