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He who is afraid to use an I in his writing will never make a good writer.
Lin Yutang
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Lin Yutang
Age: 80 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 10
Died: 1976
Died: March 26
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As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
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The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.
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Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
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Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
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Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.
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Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
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