The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and inste…

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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. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1812). The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, p.318
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