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~ Lin Yutang Quotes ~
« on: March 01, 2015, 08:39:34 PM »
Lin Yutang Quotes


A Chinese writer and inventor.
Lin Yutang (October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West.

Here are some famous quotes by Lin Yutang.




A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2015, 08:40:22 PM »
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2015, 08:40:54 PM »
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2015, 08:41:24 PM »
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2015, 08:41:57 PM »
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2015, 08:42:28 PM »
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
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Re: ~ Lin Yutang Quotes ~
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2015, 08:43:01 PM »
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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Re: ~ Lin Yutang Quotes ~
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2015, 08:43:36 PM »
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.
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Re: ~ Lin Yutang Quotes ~
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2015, 08:44:22 PM »
Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
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Re: ~ Lin Yutang Quotes ~
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2015, 08:44:48 PM »
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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