Lin Yutang's Quote - Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of p

Quote by Lin Yutang

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of p

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. – 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. – Lin Yutang

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

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What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? – Lin Yutang

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The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. – Michel de Montaigne, translated from French

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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. – George Herbert

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Im one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around. – Jennie Garth

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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