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

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

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

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We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic
Friends Existential solitude Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Source
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Genre
Autobiography and memoir Travel writing
Language
English
Time
1879 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019.

Another quote from the 1880s

The broad effects which can obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but dos not make him "better."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals

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Topic
Punishment

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Genealogy of Morals
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1887 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 2.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 2.

Another quote about Travel

Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Topic
Trains Travel

Author

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)
Source
Howards End
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1910 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.