Quote by Lin 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. – Lin Yutang

Other quotes by Lin Yutang

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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Travel
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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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Humor
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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. – Lin Yutang

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Simplicity
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Honesty
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A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself. – Terri Guillemets

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When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. – Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

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It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. – Jerome K. Jerome

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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. – Anita Brookner

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O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning. – Anne Sexton

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