Youth is wholly experimental.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Purpose of youth Trying new things

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892, ch. 10.

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Another quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic
Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Source
The Silverado Squatters
Genre
Autobiography and memoir Travel writing
Language
English
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883, pt. 2, ch. 3.

Another quote from the 1890s

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

The Will to Believe

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Topic
Evidence Certainty

Author

William James
Source
The Will to Believe
Genre
Psychological literature Religious literature
Language
English
Time
1896 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

James, William. "The Will to Believe." Philosophical Club of Yale University. Apr. 1896, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

James, William. "The Will to Believe." William James: Essays and Lectures, edited by Richard Kamber. Routledge, 2016.