"A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him."

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Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.63, BoD – Books on Demand

Karl Philipp Moritz

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.”
“Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.”

Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To be damned is to be banished from, or be deprived of living in the presence of the Father and the Son. Who will live with him? They [who] will come up and inherit the highest glory that is prepared for the faithful.”
“Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.”
“if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.”
“[N]ever stop being yourself.”

Source : Ruth Minsky Sender (2016). “The Cage”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“I saw The Rev the other night and he was on like four different things. He was like, Dude, Ive been gone for three days!”
“Information is power. --Humfrey”

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