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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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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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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

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Honesty
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Other Quotes from
Books
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

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Books

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Books

Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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Books

When a new book is published, read an old one. – Samuel Rogers

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Books

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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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I know what I like in other actors: truth. Thats the best. It makes you say, OK, Ill go with you on this. – Daniel Craig

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Truth

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West

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Fear

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards – but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. – Hugh Hefner

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