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Famous quotes containing the words classic and/or traveller:

    The detective novel is the art-for-art’s-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

    I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)