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Robert Louis Stevenson

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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The excitement and positive anticipation during a journey bring more joy than the actual moment of reaching the destination. Stevenson suggests that the process of looking forward to something can be more fulfilling than the outcome itself.

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