“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
