The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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- Attributed to
- Samuel Johnson
- Source
- Samuel Johnson, Letter to Hester Thrale, 21 September 1773.
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- English
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Photo: Christian Ferrer · CC BY 4.0 · source · Portrait: Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) (Public domain)
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