#traveller

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. ↗

— Josh Billings

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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face. ↗

— Juvenal

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At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. ↗

— Lionel Blue

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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

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All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

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I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. ↗

— Michael Palin

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