The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet.Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise From Marlbroughs eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driv'ler and a show.
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As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
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