Robert Staughton Lynd quotes
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“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.”
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“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”
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“Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.”
-- Robert Staughton LyndSource : Robert Lynd (1969). The Peal of Bells. p.26,
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“[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.”
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“The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.”
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“Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.”
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“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.”
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“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.”
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“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”
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“Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.”
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“Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.”
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“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.”
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“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.”
-- Robert Staughton LyndSource : "The Book of This and That". Book by Robert Staughton Lynd, 1915.
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“When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.”
-- Robert Staughton Lynd
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