The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. ✨ Samuel J…

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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1836). Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc, p.104
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1836). Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc, p.104

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