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Favorite Lin Yutang Quotes

1. "In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness." ~ Lin Yutang
2. "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." ~ Lin Yutang
3. "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." ~ Lin Yutang
4. "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." ~ Lin Yutang
5. "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." ~ Lin Yutang
6. "Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks." ~ Lin Yutang
7. "Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick." ~ Lin Yutang
8. "Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks." ~ Lin Yutang
9. "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." ~ Lin Yutang
10. "The wise man reads both books and life itself." ~ Lin Yutang
11. "The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life" ~ Lin Yutang
12. "What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?" ~ Lin Yutang
13. "If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly willgive him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one." ~ Lin Yutang
14. "Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace." ~ Lin Yutang
15. "Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise." ~ Lin Yutang
16. "There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere" ~ Lin Yutang
17. "When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set." ~ Lin Yutang

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The eight count is brilliant, and Mackenzie's smile-and-nod method, although a bit perkier than the one I've been using at school, is a tool with which I am already comfortable. There are a few moments of borderline flailing, but overall I gallop off court feeling okay.My tumbling pass is another story."
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