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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

The open road

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

The Vagabond

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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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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 1890s

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Topic
Stars The human condition
Speaker
Lord Darlington

Author

Oscar Wilde
Source
Lady Windermere's Fan
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedic play
Language
English
Time
1892 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.