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Category: Lin Yutang

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

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.

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

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