Lin Yutang Quotes About Literature
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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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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
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Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
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India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
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