All travel has its advantages. If the traveler visits Better countries, he may learn to improve his own and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy his own.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
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