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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#baby #been #bit #chivalry #freedoms

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#been #i #know #quite #regret

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#am #authenticity #falling #feeling #i

A friend is a gift you give yourself. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#gift #give #you #yourself

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

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

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#accomplished #brave #doctor #does #even

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#destiny #divine #down #fathers #fatigue

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#care #cultivate #eyes #garden #golden