Quote by Robert Lynd
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. – Robert Lynd

Other quotes by Robert Lynd

Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to the mouse, Come and have a piece of cheese, and then, when it accepts the invitation, to do it to death is a betrayal of the laws of hospitality. – Robert Lynd

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Hospitality
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The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. – Robert Lynd

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Mustaches
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Other Quotes from
Christmas
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Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. Its the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season. – Evan Davis

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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. – Frances Wright

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Christmas

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas – thats my favorite of all! – Joe Nichols

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Christmas

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Christmas

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Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. – Proverb

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I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino

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Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybodys head. – Steve Vai

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