#traveller

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. ↗

— James Harrington

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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. ↗

— John Milton

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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. ↗

— Michael Palin

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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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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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