Lin Yutang

Biography

Quotes

  • If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
  • 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.
  • No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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