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Lin Yutang Quotes: I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
         

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.


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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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There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.



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The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.





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