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95. Tourism; Vanity
We then walked to the Pantheon. ... I said there was not half a guinea's worth in seeing this place. Johnson: "But Sir, there is half a guinea's worth of inferiority to other people in not having seen it." Boswell: "I doubt, Sir, whether there are many happy people here." Johnson: "Yes, Sir, there are many happy people here. There are many people here who are watching hundreds, and who think hundreds are watching them."
Boswell: Life
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344. Ruins; Tourism
"To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough."
Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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358. Tourism
"Whoever surveys the world must see many things that give him pain."
Johnson: Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
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380. Experience; Tourism; Travel
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."
Johnson: Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
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