William Hazlitt Borrow Quotations

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.