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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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

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

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Topic
Dreamers Avant garde
Speaker
Gilbert

Author

Oscar Wilde
Source
The Critic as Artist Intentions
Medium
Essay
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1891 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part II." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.