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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

~Lin 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.

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A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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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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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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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.

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The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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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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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Author

Born: October 10th, 1895

Died: March 26th, 1976

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