Isabella Bird Quotes
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Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.
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I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.
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On Malaysia: Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!
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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
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I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.
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Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
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The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.
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Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.