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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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Fonder
Ideals
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Heartbreaks

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