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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

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
Inspirational, Life, Travel
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain
Travel, Fun, Adventure
Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Mark Twain
Travel, Hate, Memorable
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Mark Twain
Travel, Land, Cheerful
Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.306, Univ of California Press

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Mark Twain
Travel, Humor, Men
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Mark Twain
Motivational, Success, Travel

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Mark Twain
Travel, Mean, Conceited
Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

Mark Twain
Travel, Lying, Vanity

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

Mark Twain
Travel, Brother, Hands
Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Travel, Phrases
Mark Twain (2015). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.407, Sheba Blake Publishing

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Mark Twain
Travel, Pain, Care
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.131, Courier Corporation

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Mark Twain
Country, Fashion, Travel
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4311, Delphi Classics

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

Mark Twain
Country, Travel, Heaven
Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

Mark Twain
Funny, Travel, Humor
The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 27

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

Mark Twain
Travel, Real, Grateful
Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.300, University of Iowa Press

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Mark Twain
Travel, Society, Tourism
Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.318, Univ of California Press

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Mark Twain
Travel, Consequence
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.1, Courier Corporation

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Mark Twain
Travel, Humorous, Foreigners
The Innocents Abroad ch. 19 (1869)

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

Mark Twain
Travel, Ass, Gentle
Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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