"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
-Lin Yutang
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"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.“
-Lin Yutang
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"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
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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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"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."
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"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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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
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