If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
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A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at 5 oclock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.Lin Yutang
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.
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Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
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If a man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, count at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
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