"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
-Lin Yutang
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"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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"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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"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."
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