See also Travel
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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