Quote by Lin Yutang
The wise man reads both books and life itself. - Lin Yutang

The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang

Other quotes by Lin Yutang

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

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

Category:
Humor
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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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Clothing
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Other Quotes from
Books
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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Books

Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. – Hilaire Belloc

Category:
Books

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution — such call I good books. – Henry David Thoreau

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Books

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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Books

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Thats a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible. – Daryl Hannah

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Senses

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but Im not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character. – Corin Nemec

Category:
relationship

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. – Max Jacob

Category:
strength