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

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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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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Other Quotes from
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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Books

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. – Chinese Saying

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Books

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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Books

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But a book is never just a book. – The Old Sage Bookshop in Prescott, Arizona

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Books

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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity. – Joely Fisher

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Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it. – Danny Kaye

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[V]iolet… inclines to purple, and so seems to conceal under an ashy blue the pride and passion of red. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, “Personal Adornment: Colours and Their