To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Journey vs. destination Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "El Dorado." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, 1881.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who 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. Chatto & Windus, 1883, pt. 2, ch. 3.

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, aphorism 15.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals. Translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin, 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
Original Citation

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

Current Citation

Forster, E.M. Howards End. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 2.