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• Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. -- Elizabeth Drew
• The more often you stop, the more difficult it is to continue. -- Edward Abbey
• The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism
  romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness....
• Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A pretty girl can do no wrong. -- Edward Abbey
• The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. -- Edward Abbey
• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
  -- Edward Abbey...