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Night 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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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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Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars…

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