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Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

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Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

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Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

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One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

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Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

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A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears.

- John Lennon

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There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.

- Anonymous

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Life is a journey, not a destination.

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Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

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You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

- Jack London

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