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The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

CHAPTER XII
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Besides, there is no use in our quarrelling now, as you will find out when you get through this paper.] -- Travel, according to my experience, does not exactly correspond to the idea one gets of it out of most books of travels.

I am thinking of travel as it was when I made the Grand Tour, especially in Italy.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two.

There are certain principles to be assumed,--such as these:--He who is carried by horses must deal with rogues.
-- To-day's dinner subtends a larger visual angle than yesterday's revolution.


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