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One Quotes by Lin Yutang
- I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
- If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
- There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
- 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.
- Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
- A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
- How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell…
- No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
- Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
- 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…
- What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
- Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
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