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I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

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Isabella Bird
Age: 73 †
Born: 1831
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
Explorer
Geographer
Naturalist
Photographer
Writer
Boroughbridge
Yorkshire
Author of The Englishwoman in America
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[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!
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The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.
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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
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Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.
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Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.
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