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Quote by Lin Yutang
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble a

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. – 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. – Lin Yutang

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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. – Lin Yutang

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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. – Arthur Helps, Essays Written in Intervals of Business, 1841

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Life is amazingly good when it’s simple and amazingly simple when it’s good. – Terri Guillemets

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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. – Philip James Bailey

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