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  • Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of a deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
    Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

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