All Robert Lynd Quotes
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
Robert Lynd
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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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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
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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.
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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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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
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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.
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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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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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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
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