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“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 154.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7b1a11cff66a4a8a3e0a4ebf440aee23368ea6188bad11ac198c8246b8322c6c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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