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Your Quotes for 5 July 2005 - Travel

Baptist missionary Thomas Cook organized the first group travel on this day in 1841, arranging for 570 people to travel from Leicester to a temperance rally in Loughborough by rail. By 1844 he had an office in London and a contract with the Midland Counties Railway Company to pay him a commission on travel he arranged. In 1856 he was organizing rail tours of Europe for the British middle class that had not had affordable access to the Continent. In 1864 he incorporated as Thomas Cook and Son, and was arranging travel to the US. Direct ticket sales on websites is changing the travel industry now, but even that continues the trend that Cook started.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
     - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.
     - Freya Stark

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.
     - Louis L'Amour, Ride the Dark Trail

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
     - Augustine of Hippo, 354 - 430

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
     - Clifton Fadiman, 1904 - 1999

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.
     - Regina Nadelson

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