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"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." — Lyn 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." — Lyn 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." — Lyn 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 un-admitted desire to undress" — Lyn Yutang
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"It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams." — Lyn Yutang
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"I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs." — Lyn Yutang
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"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice." — Lyn Yutang
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"Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick." — Lyn Yutang
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"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set" — Lyn 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." — Lyn Yutang
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"The wise man reads both books and life itself." — Lyn Yutang
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"All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures" — Lyn Yutang
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"There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a healthy wise old man" — Lyn Yutang
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"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought." — Lyn Yutang
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"Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination." — Lyn Yutang
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"We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad" — Lyn Yutang
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"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." — Lyn Yutang
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"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach" — Lyn Yutang
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"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother" — Lyn Yutang
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"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do" — Lyn Yutang
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"Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do" — Lyn Yutang
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