Samuel Johnson on Travel
1709–1784 England
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)
As the Spanish proverb says, "He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)