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Lin Yutang Quotes: Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
         

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.


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





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