“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
El Dorado.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.”
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