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Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.
Lin Yutang
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Lin Yutang
Age: 80 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 10
Died: 1976
Died: March 26
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The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
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Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
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I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
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The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.
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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.
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It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
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Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.
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Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.
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The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
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However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.
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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.
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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
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The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
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