You got rid of them. Yes, thatβs just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether βtis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end themβ¦ But you donβt do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. Itβs too easy. β¨ Aldous Huxley (1933). Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
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