| History is the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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| It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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| It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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| Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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| There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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| Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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| Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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| The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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| No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. |
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- Robert S. Lynd |
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