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The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

Lin Yutang

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Lin Yutang
Age: 80 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 10
Died: 1976
Died: March 26
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O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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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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It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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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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A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
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Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
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The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.
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The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
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We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.
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Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
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All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
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An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.
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There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.
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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
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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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A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
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