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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To travel is to live.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
    tags: life, travel
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    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    ― Derek Walcott
    tags: read, travel
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
    tags: travel
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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    Pliny the Elder
    “In wine, there's truth.”
    ― Pliny the Elder, Pliny: Natural History IV
    tags: truth, wine
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: wine
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”
    ― D. H. Lawrence
    tags: wine
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I like on the table,
    when we're speaking,
    the light of a bottle
    of intelligent wine.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: wine
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    Louis Pasteur
    “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
    ― Louis Pasteur
    tags: alcohol, bacteria, drinking, health, wine
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    Martin Luther
    “Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: beer, wine
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    E.E. Cummings
    “his lips drink water
    but his heart drinks wine”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: drinking, wine
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    Oliver Goldsmith
    “I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
    ― Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
    tags: books, friends, wine
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    Megan Whalen Turner
    “I am not sure I trust you."
    "You can trust me with your life, My King."
    "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.”
    ― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia
    tags: eugenides, humor, wine
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: wine
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    John Keats
    “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: books, wine
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    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: advice, experience, life, variety, wine
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    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Trisha Yearwood
    “What's meant to be will always find a way”
    ― Trisha Yearwood
    tags: fate, inspiration, love
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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: inspiration, motivation
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    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
    4215 likes



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