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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long." — Robert Lynd
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"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen." — Robert Lynd
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"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear." — Robert Lynd
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"It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans." — Robert Lynd
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"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left" — Robert Lynd
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"Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them." — Robert Lynd
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"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas" — Robert Lynd
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"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." — Robert Lynd
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"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer" — Robert Lynd
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"There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things." — Robert Lynd
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"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge" — Robert 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." — Robert Lynd
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"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering" — Robert Lynd
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"No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil." — Robert 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." — Robert Lynd
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"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with." — Robert Lynd
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"It is in games that many men discover their paradise." — Robert Lynd
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"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead" — Robert Lynd
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"Almost any game with any ball is a good game." — Robert Lynd
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"It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf." — Robert Lynd
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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long" — Robert Lynd
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