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George Eliot on Travel

1819–1880 England

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In travelling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools' pleasure.

The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

No farther will I travel: once again
My brethren I will see, and that fair plain
Where I and song were born.

The Legend of Jubal (1869)

Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are.

Travelling can hardly be without a continual current of disappointment, if the main object is not the enlargement of one’s general life, so as to make even weariness and annoyances enter into the sum of benefit.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Eliot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.