#traveller

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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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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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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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

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Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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