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By Robert Louis Stevenson
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
- Source
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (first edition), 1881 · "El Dorado", p. 190 (printed page number seen on the page image)
- Read at
- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881)
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The last lines of "El Dorado", an essay in Robert Louis Stevenson's Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881). The essayist speaks, addressing the toiling travellers of the world.