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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams
Travel, Taste, Inches
'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 12

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Henry Adams
Travel, Tourists, Dirt
Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1516, Open Road Media

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

Henry Adams
Travel, Mistake, Ignorance
Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1631, Open Road Media

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