| The wise man reads both books and life itself. |
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- Lin Yutang |
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| Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. |
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- Lin Yutang |
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| However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight. |
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- Lin Yutang |
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| Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. |
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- Lin Yutang |
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| All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. |
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- Lin Yutang |
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| I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. |
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- Lin Yutang |
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| What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? |
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- Lin Yutang |
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| Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. |
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- Lin Yutang |
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