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Travel writing6 quotes
There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883We 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 · 1879To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882So 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. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1872Every one lives by selling something. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1892For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879Autobiography and memoir3 quotes
There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883We 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 · 1879Every one lives by selling something. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1892Science fiction1 quote
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886