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Literature Quotes by Lin Yutang

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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…

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There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in…

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And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

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“Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I…

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An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

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The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to…

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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

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Art is both creation and recreation.

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Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good…

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The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor…

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

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Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief?…