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The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

Lin Yutang

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Lin Yutang
Age: 80 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 10
Died: 1976
Died: March 26
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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
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No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
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Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.
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The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
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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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Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside he may only be disagreed with.
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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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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
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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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Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
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Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
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I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.
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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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Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.
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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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