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Quotation from Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Travelling is a fool’s paradise.”
Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), II. Self-Reliance (Project Gutenberg #2944)
Emerson describes arriving in Naples to find the same sad self he hoped to leave at home.
Citation: "Travelling is a fool’s paradise." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), II. Self-Reliance (Project Gutenberg #2944). (id emerson-essays-q5)
Portrait: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Josiah Johnson Hawes 1857, Josiah Johnson Hawes, Public domain.
