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Afternoon Quote by Lin Yutang

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” quote by Lin Yutang — Download Open image

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”

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“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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