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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

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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

Category:
Honesty
Author
Lin Yutang
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Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. – Lin Yutang

Category:
Peace
Author
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

Category:
Humor
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Lin Yutang
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Other Quotes from
Books
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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

Category:
Books

Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

Category:
Books

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. – Jeremy Collier

Category:
Books

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt

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Books

Random Quotes

I learned you cant trust the judgment of good friends. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
Trust

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Category:
Progress

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. – Richard Marx

Category:
dad

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Communism