Travel Quotes: April 2020

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"The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he cannot stay quietly in his room" 

- Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 - 19 August 1662),
mathematician, physicist, inventor and writer.
Upper Seletar Reservoir, Singapore (2016)

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