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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#babies #buddhists #cannibalism #disgust #feed

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#cannot #fight #must #now #out

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#clock #during #fortune #frightened #go

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#attempts #conceived #console #discourage #generally

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#best #cheapest #compromise #lawyer

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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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. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#calls #devotion #his #man #many

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#eyes #find #fit #follow #forgive

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

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