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

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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.

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

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

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Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Letter to S.R. Crockett. 15 Aug. 1893.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Yale University Press, 2001, ch. 15.

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The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Youth and Love." Songs of Travel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 3.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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Virginibus Puerisque

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, ch. 2.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case." Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 10.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque." The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 34, 1876, p. 176.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Cornhill Magazine, July 1877, vol. 36, pp. 80-86.

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." Songs of Travel. Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 4.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Roger C. Lewis. Edinburgh University Press, 2019, st. 4.

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Lay Morals. c. 1872.

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The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

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Virginibus Puerisque

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Truth of Intercourse." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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Every one lives by selling something.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892, ch. 9.

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Youth is wholly experimental.

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

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Rajah's Diamond: Story of the House with the Green Blinds." New Arabian Nights. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "El Dorado." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "El Dorado." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "In the Highlands, in the Country Places." Songs of Travel and Other Verses. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque III: On Falling in Love." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "On Falling in Love." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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