A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
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“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
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