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  • When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Travel Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Travel Quotes , Real Quotes
  • Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Travel Quotes
  • The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Travel Quotes , Brother Quotes